----- Original Message ----- > From: "Benson Schliesser" <bens...@queuefull.net>
> On a related topic, the US DoJ recently wrote a letter suggesting that > DNS registry/registrar vertical integration might not be a good idea > (from an anti-trust perspective). > > http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/strickling-to-dengate-thrush-16jun11-en.pdf Y'know, I thought I'd covered that point in my DNS NOI comments (now, lo, 14 years old: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1997-07/msg00156.html but as it turns out, I had apparently confused "registrar" and "registry" -- not as mortal a sin then as it would be now -- so I can't actually point to an answer to that question. I do *have* an answer: yes; separating them is a good idea. I appeared to have the opposite answer in those comments; I was miscalling a registry a registrar, which is why it looked like that. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
