Alabanza Inc, a recently accredited DSN registrar, has launched Bulkregister.com to offer web site names at heavily discounted prices. This is what the government intended when it ended the Network Solutions monopoly, said president, Tom Cunningham. NSI fixed the charge for DNS registration at $70 for two years, but the new registrars set up by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will only have to pay $6 per name from 2000. Bulkregister.com executives promise that their annual price per name will steadily decrease to $12 as the volume of registrations reaches 1000. At that price, Bulkregister.com will earn only a few dollars per domain name, but it says it is counting on its resellers to generate the high volumes it needs. Expect companies to start bundling domain registrations free with other services, like web hosting and net access. Expect, too, that URLs will get more convoluted than ever.
