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Even if i agree with you, why should a monopoly get the money? I am sure we can figure a better way to spend it.
by sfe22 5y ago
Even if i agree with you, why should a monopoly get the money? I am sure we can figure a better way to spend it.
- xxpor 5y agoHow are they a monopoly? There's literally thousands of TLDs now. It's like saying Apple has a monopoly on iPhones.
- Kye 5y agoThey're a monopoly on .com. Reasonable or not, .com is still widely seen as more authoritative than other TLDs, even .net and .org.
- xxpor 5y agoSo why shouldn't Verisign be able to capture the value they're providing?
- Kye 5y agoWhat value do you imagine Verisign provides? Verisign has nothing to do with .com's reputation. Most people have never heard of it. They didn't even run it until the peak of the .com bubble when everyone had already made their associations with .com.
- johnwheeler 5y agoThe other top level domains aren’t as credible, and everyone knows that.
- culpable_pickle 5y agocredible? Ubiquitous, sure, but credible? Who ensures that a .com is a credible website?
- johnwheeler 5y agoWhoever said anyone ensures a .com is credible? I don’t think anyone said a .com guarantees credibility. I said, other tlds aren’t as credible, and everyone knows that.
- paulryanrogers 5y agoFew beyond .com would be recognized by non-technical people
- orra 5y agoThere's a cost to switching. Established links, domain reputation.
- PaywallBuster 5y agoThey have 140M .com domains. Everyone holding a .com domain can't simply move its registration from Verisign to somewhere else. (Moving to new gtld is not equivalent at all) They're holding their customers captive and profiting from it.
- ericd 5y agoYou're right, they probably shouldn't, but that's a whole different discussion.