Wanted: Investors for Alternate Root system. Plenty of cashola to be had on $1 yearly Registry fees with the added bonus of making both Verisign and ICANN irrelavent.

Please. Been there, done that.

Show me your plan for making Verisign and ICANN irrelevant and we'll talk.

Okay, here's one nutty plan for making ICANN and Verisign irrelevant. No NDA required. The .COM registrars decide that they will no longer write their data to the Verisign registry. Instead, they'll write their customers' data to a new .COM non-profit registry. In 24 hours, Verisign is publishing stale data. Only the new non-profit has the updated information. ISPs have to switch. Users switch. Verisign becomes irrelevant. The nuttiest thing about it is that it assumes that registrars actually get together...but aside from that, how nutty is it really?

-- Bret

I dunno Bret, the registrars were pretty unified this time. Wouldn't it be a massive security and stability issue if they all simultaneously screwed over their entire customer base?

To change the subject.... I'm wondering if there's not a profit opportunity for the registrars here.

If they're going to be forced to raise prices, then they'll probably do it using the *.99 or *.95 pricing model that virtually every seller of virtually any product uses.

If it's $8.95 today, it will be $9.95 tomorrow?

So, a $1 price increase at retail will equate to an extra $0.58 gross margin per domain per year in the first year of the new contract. It would be and extra $0.13 in the second year.

Am I hideously, terribly wrong here? (I could be, I'm just a hack)