Submitted by Jim Udall on May 23, 2006 - 12:56pm.
Imagine this sort of cyber-world if you will:
- A domain name costs $400/month.
- Before you are permitted to send and receive e-mail through your domain name, you have to submit an explanation to IANA explaining what sort of e-mail you'll be sending and receiving.
- If you hope to use your domain name to launch a commercial service, you'll be required to give 50% of your revenue to your ISP.
- Even after you get your domain name and e-mail address, only users in the same country as you can send you e-mail. If you want users from other countries to send you e-mail, you'll have to register a new domain name in each of those other countries with similar restrictions.
- If as an end user, you decide to install some software to enable a new service, you'll first have to contact your ISP to let them know what that service was before it would work.
- Each user's browser is controlled by your ISP. They will dictate what sites you can visit.
Now imagine where the Internet might be had it evolved under such a scenario. Does this seem like a scenario ripe for innovation and opportunity?
