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Isn't this exactly the type of situation that USA antitrust law is supposed to penalize? Controlling .org is a monopoly. Rising prices is exploiting that monopo

• adventured 7y ago
  > Am I missing something? Modern anti-trust law isn't about punishing monopolies per se. Its primary focus is on consumer harm (direct or indirect). It is not against anti-trust law to exploit a monopoly. Microsoft, Google, Intel, Cisco, eBay, Google, Facebook, SiriusXM, and a thousand other companies (at various sizes at the local, regional and national levels) in the US do exactly that every day. An anti-trust case would need to prove a given action is particularly harmful. The extent of the monopoly exploitation and harm is where the case is argued. It's very much a subjective doctrine and always has been. Any company raising prices will argue that they're doing so in a very reasonable manner, and then will set out to demonstrate that it's reasonable (based on any favorable comparisons they can make).
  • Aeolun 7y ago
    All .org organizations suddenly switching to a different domain name seems like a fantastic definition of harm to me.