logical Beatz on your earlier post. Can't say the same on your following comments and others though. Yes, all participating registrars will be able to offer WLS, and will profit from it. To think that is not the case is ignorance of the facts. The registrars will profit just the same as the offerings of new registrations. It will be up the registrar to participate in the WLS, and after the WLS is ratified, we can see how many regisrars stick by their 'principles' and refuse to offer it, and see how many registrars yield to reality and realize they indeed will profit by offering a WLS service. The latter will happen--guaranteed.
Verisign hosed themselves by trying to gouge $35 profits with their initial WLS proposal. They are so stupid. They could have easily broken into the expired domain racket that other registrars have already soaked registrants for if they too were not as greedy as the enoms and signatures of the world.
The WLS is coming though, and don't think it won't. The devil is in the details, and there is certainly no shortage of devils in this game. The registrars, in opposing the WLS, are trying to paint themselves as angelic victims, but no one is buying it. They are crooks. Backroom deals, pay-for-registrar access, non-published name-drop policies, etc. As far a registrars registering names for themselves, enom again takes the cake. They solicited multilingual domain lists to be registered FOR CLIENTS, and instead registered the names for themselves. Total sleazeballs. On top of that sleaze, they also auto-bill using creditcard numbers on file to 'autorenew' names without express authorization. Total crooks again. No wonder they oppose the WLS so fiercely: They reinforce the adage 'no honor among thieves'.
