A domain name on its own is something pretty useless. Yes, exactly the vision I see, with one caveat. I see the customer getting his Access through thier IAP, usually the local telco, and getting their services elsewhere becasue the telco is so bad at those. This concept is integral to our business plans. We see a separation between IAPs and ISPs.
Access is the only place that absolutely no one can compete with the telcos.
They have scads of raw switch capacity, which is already paid-for, therefore, no one can touch their operations cost levels. Having been in management at both MCI and Pacific Bell, I have seen this personally. Access is another place where initial investment cost is a serious barrier to entry. Further, we're a Linux shop and heavily invested in the open-source concept. On that note, we are looking into opportunities to provide those services as well.