At 2:51 PM -0400 10/8/03, Dean Anderson wrote:
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
VeriSign's vice president for its registry service. Citing concerns of proprietary information and competitive advantage, he added that he didn't think he could guarantee any advance notice of similar changes in the future.
Gomes' position truly bothers me if a registry, given that it meets the formal definition of a technical monopoly, is planning around competitive advantage.
This is incorrect. Verisign is not a monopoly. There are many registrars of .net and .com domain names which compete with Verisign.
--Dean
It is not a monopoly in its regiSTRAR function. It is a monopoly as regiSTRY of .net and .com. It couldn't have inserted the wildcards if it wasn't. Having control of the TLD servers makes you a monopoly for that TLD.