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Re: ICANN to remove fee restrictions on .INFO, .ORG, .BIZ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Loftis)
Mon Aug 28 20:28:47 2006

Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:27:51 -0600
From: Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>
To: John Levine <nanog@johnlevine.com>, nanog@nanog.org
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--On August 28, 2006 9:52:30 PM +0000 John Levine <nanog@johnlevine.com> 
wrote:

> You're confusing registrars and registries.  Every TLD has a single
> monopoly registry to which all registrars funnel the registrations.
> Switching registrars wouldn't help.

AH!  That's what I was missing now it makes sense.  I wasn't thinking about 
it carefully enough.  So yeah, decidedly bad juju. :/
>
> I have a longer blog entry on this at http://weblog.johnlevine.com.
>
> R's,
> John
>



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