 kapilThe Kapil
join:2000-04-26
Chicago, IL | reply to Kev9923
Re: Can someone explain... All registrars pay the registry operator (Versign for com and net) a "wholesale" rate for domain registrations. Verisign calls it the registry fee. The last I checked, this fee was $6. Anything above this registry fee goes to your registrar.
Versign doesn't owe anything to anyone because no names were "registered". It operates the registry and controls the root DNS servers for the .com and .net TLDs.
Versign is contractually forbidden from being an registrar...but it gets around this by using different subsidiaries for the wholesale and retail registration business.
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| Exactly! No names were registered but the root DNS is responding to all these new names. Someone should have to pay for each of these. When I register a name, I get a root DNS entry for my money. What Verisign has done is the equivalent of giving themselves a root DNS entry for every unregistered .com and .net name.
Of course, if the 6 bucks goes entirely to Verisign, it wouldn't matter if they were made to pay for each of those names. On the other hand, if a buck or two went to ICANN, that could add up fast.
Then there's the anti-trust issues. The only way another company can do the equivalent of what Verisign is doing would be to register every possible .com or .net name. Obviously, Verisign has an unfair advantage.
ICANN should force all registry operators to chip in a buck or two for every domain that their root DNS server responds to. That would stop this nonsense. |
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davePremium,MVM
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| said by Kev9923:
What Verisign has done is the equivalent of giving themselves a root DNS entry for every unregistered .com and .net name.
No it isn't.
Today, ijustmadethisnameup.com goes to Verisign.
I can register ijustmadethisnameup.com for myself.
By your theory, if Verisign had to pay for ijustmadethisnameup.com, either (a) I wouldn't be able to register it - since registration is a one-owner-only thing, or (b) they'd be entitled to a refund?
Sure, what they did was reprehensible. But let's not confuse the issue. |
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