$90 for high assurance _versus_ $349 for low assurance

[R.A. Hettinga]

At 9:24 PM +0000 3/11/05, Ian G wrote:
>Does anyone have a view on what "low" and "high" means in this
>context?  Indeed, what does "assurance" mean?

:-)

By what market price, of course.

Verisign is more well known to the average schmuck than godaddy is, and,
apparently, the average schmuck forks over the ducats accordingly.

The fact that they're currently fungible commodities, ungraded ones at
that, only makes the pricing outcome more, um, interesting, if, for the
moment, okay, not predictable, :-), but, what, apprehendable by common
sense, at least in 20-20 ex post facto hindsight?

Cheers,
RAH

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