Re: [ga] Tiered (Variable) Pricing

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, Michael, not shooting at you but . . .

1. How does allowing tiered pricing foster competition on the web? (Not just
competition between registries and registrars, competition for all small and
large business owners)(ICANN's mandate to foster competition was not meant
only between registries was it?)

2. How does tiered pricing benefit the average Internet user?

3. What do you mean by flexibility? (They make money from the current domain
name pricing structure. As a business they are also allowed to sell anything
else they want to improve their bottom line. The inability to create other
revenue streams sounds like a management problem at the company's level.
Price hikes are not the only way they can survive or pay bills.)

4. Do you agree that giving more power to the registries, coupled with ICANN
stifling innovation and a free market by not allowing more companies to
create better, commercially viable TLDs gives the appearance of collusion
between ICANN and the current registries? Can you see where it appears that
while ICANN limits the choices of consumers while allowing the registries to
raise prices so the current registries make more money while keeping out any
competetition so they can do so?

2 + 2 = 4 every single time.

Chris McElroy aka NameCritic
http://icann.thingsthatjustpissmeoff.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael D. Palage" <Michael@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Danny Younger'" <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>; <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:08 AM
Subject: RE: [ga] Tiered (Variable) Pricing


> Danny:
>
> I respect the position of you and others with regard to this issue. I
> realized when posting this proposal I would be taking a position in
> between two diametrically opposed viewpoints where I was likely to get
> shot at by both sides. Notwithstanding this reality, I think my proposed
> contractual changes are such that it provides the registry operator the
> flexibility that it needs in its operations, while protecting the
> reasonable expectation interests of existing registrants.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Younger [mailto:dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 8:57 AM
> To: Michael D. Palage; ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ga] Tiered (Variable) Pricing
>
>
> Michael,
>
> The Community has drawn a line in the sand.  Catering
> to the naked greed of registry operators is not an
> option.
>
> Your proposed compromise is not acceptable -- owing to economies of
> scale, prices should be going down, not up -- instead of increases, we
> should be discussing a fixed percentage annual decrease.
>
> All price hike proposals should be withdrawn.
> Registries should focus on profit enhancement only by
> way of new registry service offerings.
>
> Best regards,
> Danny
>
>
> --- "Michael D. Palage" <Michael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hello All:
> >
> > In the interesting of continuing a very constructive
> > dialog with regard
> > to tiered pricing, I have published the following
> > article on CircleID,
> > see
> >
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/tiered_variable_pricing_compromise/.
> > Some of the initial comments such as George's
> > continues to take an "all
> > or nothing approach" to the current registry
> > contracts.  The purpose of
> > this article was to address what I saw as one
> > loophole which could be
> > closed to protect reasonable expectation interests
> > of registrants while
> > allowing registries the flexibility to use
> > tiered(variable) pricing in
> > their business operations.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Michael D. Palage
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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