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Won't someone think of the poor investors? Again, that's not who public policy should serve.

Why not view it as, this is a good start and hoping it continues to prevent even more consolidation and monopoly in airlines and other industries? The notion that there has to be more consolidation to compete is only good for the companies monopolizing - not the consumer. Why should we be helping them make more profit by abusing market power versus delivering better products and competing?

They simply outsource the backend and collect a large profit. It's not a difficult business at all. The margins are insanely good in fact. They're doing at least 60% if not closer to 90% I suspect on the actual operations side if they competitively bid out their backend.

Registry contracts aren't bid out every few years for the most part, that's a giant problem. Why Verisign has a monopoly on com/net.

There are cheaper TLDs, everytime they go up for bid, the costs to run them comes out and it's under a dollar per domain. And you're comparing .COM an original gTLD to country code TLDs, which are owned by countries. Countries that can make their own rules and charge their own prices.

Verisign is going to push every possible way to extract more money from .COM/.NET monopoly. They maximize price increases at every opportunity on their contracts (which has automatic renewal and no competition). For what? No added value to customers or the ecosystem as a whole.

SiteFinder was just one of many moves in a long series of bad for everyone but Verisign moves. Remember when .ORG had its price caps removed and then private equity tried to buy it? Guess where a lot of that backing came from...

https://www.portugal.com/news/portugal-officially-ending-gol...

He had to commit fraud, otherwise the business wouldn't work!

But this experience isn't unique to discord. It happens with a lot of common tools. We've run into issues with google suspending/filtering things because we were talking about something that got flagged somewhere (guessing malware). I work a lot with domains and operated registrars, so having lists of domains was common. But sometimes domains were flagged (think expiring domains) and google messes with them. We had spreadsheets deleted/restricted (on paid accounts). Realized emails were being filtered, without any warning/notification that mentioned specific domains. Yeah, that was a fun one to realize when they ask why you haven't responded for days and you watched the email send, again, and again. And you debugged it down to the domain triggering blackholing without issues.

Either you end up having to have some degree of trust or roll your own everything. But these issues pop up with service providers not infrequently if you're working with data.

I also have a bluesky account and look at it maybe once a week at best.

Not too active lately but feeling like I should get back into it more. I also write more on the company blog about industry topics. Since it's a one many company, it often feels like the right place. https://reviewsignal.com/blog/

That just... doesn't make sense.

AWS made 5.2B last quarter.

Google is selling at cloud at a loss to gain market share while it's biggest competitor is raking in profit. Sure, you can burn money and gain market share. But would anyone pick Google for a long term partner on any product? I sure as hell wouldn't. They have a tendency to simply discard products left and right. The support is non existent. Why tie yourself to such an unreliable partner?