The landscape of the Internet will change in the next year with an increase in the amount of name spaces and the entry of competitors into fundamental Internet functions previously controlled by monopolies. The introduction of these top level domains is also expected to usher in new competition on a variety of fronts. The most obvious place for new competition is in the Internet's name space. The higher price means that only serious registrants will be getting dot-biz domain names.
Price competition is also important.
Such is the strategy with dot-tv, the ccTLD for the country of Tuvalu. The dotTV Corporation , in an exclusive partnership with the people of Tuvalu, is offering dot-tv domain names for general use. If new TLDs alleviate the domain name scarcity, these prices might drop. A domain name registry is a system that stores the contact information of domain registrants and tells the Domain Name System which computer on the Net hosts the domain. By contrast, a registrar provides the front-end interface that users see when registering domains.