Verisign on Process

Wed Oct 8 18:59:42 UTC 2003

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.