On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
Gomes' position truly bothers me if a registry, given that it meets the formal definition of a technical monopoly, is planning around competitive advantage.
I think its definately a sign that the verisign hegemony over domain registration needs to be removed. If they're going to be so irresponsible as to misuse a public trust, they need to be nixed.
Other speakers pointed out that the functionality of Sitefinder could be implemented at the edge, not breaking the end-to-end assumption and still allowing innovation. Internet Explorer, for example, has such functionality.
MS and VS. Reminds me of some recent wars where observers were sad that only one side could lose. :-)
I think that might be one way to have Verisign quashed - use the monopolies to smash eachother. Think about how much money MS lost due to sitefinder...