Actually your completely wrong. It would be illegal. In the US it is illegal
for any group of people to get together and conspire to set the price at
which a product or service can be sold. If you don't think so then you need
to talk with a corporate lawyer about the US law. The Department of Commerce
and the each State Commerce Department take very dim views of this.
Also remember that OPEC isn't in the US and they aren't companies but rather
countries that are setting the prices, thus they are subject to US
government regulation and laws.
Tim Jung
System Admin
Internet Gateway Inc.
tjung@igateway.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Coolfred Internet Services" <coolfred@coolfred.org>
To: <bill@daze.net>; <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: RE: New Ideas for OpenSRS (or wish list) - Reseller Access
>
>
> --- Bill Gerrard <20000303030705.F321E80B9@sitemail.everyone.net> wrote:
>>
> >That is price fixing and is illegal in the United States.
>
> It is hardly price fixing, since we are not the ONLY ones selling domains.
As I said before you may even give away domains to your own webhosting
customers, but I doubt it if we all agree that a minimum of say $20 is a
reasonable price to non-webhosting customers, would be illegal.
>
> People all around the world have been "agreeing" on prices and as
consumers we have no choice but to pay. Just look at the prices of gas. Oil
companies "agree" that they should maintain a certain profit margin and
everybody goes along. OPEC members "agree" to raise the price by lowering
supply and we still pay for it. It is not like consumers don't have a choice
to buy their domains from non-OpenSRS resellers.
>
> Farhad Sadeghi
> Coolfred Internet Services
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