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Originally posted by sacX
yeah but there's a lot more to the expiring domain market than the top 5 names that drop each day.
As it stands at the moment yes Pool has a huge market share, but if you want you can start a registry and get an RRP connect, and perhaps even start a few. If you put in the work and had some resources you could compete against pool. Well some of the well financed players already certainly could.
With WLS, Verisign gets a monopoly, and everyone knows how everything VRSN touches turns to crap 
I'm not opposed to WLS, because I can't really be bothered trying to compete with Pool, they're so far ahead, and I think I'll probably do better under WLS.
I just think there are good arguments on both sides.
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It's against ICANN law to become a registrar in order to chase
drops.
Now, becoming a registrar aint that expensive, you're looking
at maybe $10k/month + $100k in hardware start up costs. The
only thing that you need to have as proof is a nice bank account
with some $500k.
If you don't have that, good luck becoming a registrar.
Now let's multiply that a few times and see how easy it is.
If it was possible, big guns like Buy Domains who have 250k+
prime domains would have done this YEARS ago. Why would
they want to pay registrars $5k/name when they can get
it for $6 if they were a registrar?
Same goes for ultimate search.
These guys have tens of millions allocated for domain investments.
Why wouldnt they spend some of that money on becoming a
registrar (even when it was safe) and "secure" their success.
One thing I'll agree on though, WLS will certainly fuck things up!