Re: [ga] The Future of Domain Registry Pricing, if left uncapped

[Veni Markovski <veni@xxxxxxxx>]

George,
what's your point? That this is a market, and you need it to be 
regulated? Or that there are people who make lots of money by 
registering tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of domain 
names, and this should be stopped? Or that the price should not be "whatever"?

How about the ccTLD? The only competition so far to the ".com" has 
been ".de", and this will change with China and India entering this 
market. So, why not ask ICANN to deal also with the ccTLD prices? Or 
may be not ICANN, but the ITU, with some new settlement agreement 
between ccTLDs?

Etc., etc.

veni

At 06:56 PM 08.8.2006 '?.'  -0400, George Kirikos wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> If you want to get a sense of where domain name wholesale costs might
> be heading if Neustar, Verisign et al are able to charge whatever they
> want, we need only look at the pricing for Common Short Codes, today,
> which Neustar runs:
>
> http://www.usshortcodes.com/
> http://www.usshortcodes.com/csc_obtain_a_csc.html
>
> "Registering and leasing a CSC costs $1,000 per month for each
> "Selected CSC" and $500 per month for each "Random CSC." THESE FEES ARE
> NON-REFUNDABLE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER ANY WIRELESS CARRIER AGREES TO
> ACTIVATE YOUR CSC. The Registry must receive payment in full for the
> duration of the registration at the time your application is approved.
> We offer Registration Terms of 3 months, 6 months and one year. Because
> fees are due up front, if you register a Selected CSC for three months
> the cost is $3000.00, and Random CSC for three months is $1500.00."
>
> Of course, we also have the example of .tv, http://www.tv/ where some
> names are six-figures+ per year as .tv. Naturally, .com names would be
> priced at a huge premium to any equivalent .tv.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> George Kirikos
> http://www.kirikos.com/