RE: Network Solutions changes contract

Hello All-


         Actually monopoly law is far more complex than this. Internic 
operated as a government sanctioned monopoly and was regulated as such. 
Regulated monopolies exist and have existed with government acceptance for 
some time. You power company is one, you phone company used to be one, your 
gas is one, and your cable as far as I can tell is one. All of these 
entities are being faced with deregulation (except maybe gas), some are at 
different stages in the process than others.
         Your proposal to control domains with a government entity, though 
probably effective, is in essence how the original system was set up. This 
is why they are introducing new registrars, to allow for commercial domain 
name registration, but in a competitive market. Internic was hobbled in the 
price they could set, precisely because they were under charter of the 
government. The initial price they set was way low, but there service 
sucked and still does. Hopefully competition will change that level of 
service while increasing service. We can only hope.

Just my 2c, have a good one.

-Stephen Johnston


At 09:35 AM 6/1/2000, you wrote:
>NSI is a monopoly.
>
>They operate in the USA.
>
>Monopolies are illegal in the USA.
>
>Sooner or later the justice department will be preassured into admitting this
>and going after them.
>
>The function they perform was never meant to go to a commericial company and
>for good reasons.
>
>A domain name is not a phone number. It's a trademark identity. This is like
>the patent agency or the copyright office being commerical. In the end domains
>are something that should be part of some UN trademark/copyright treaty and
>handed out by government bodies.

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