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Technology Stocks : Network Solutions (NSOL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Duane Greg who wrote (752)	4/6/1999 10:14:00 AM
From: stockvalinvestor	Respond to of 1377

Street.com excerpt: SAN FRANCISCO -- What's a fair price for registering an address on the Internet? To stick to its timetable, the government must resolve certain key issues, the most prominent of which is the ambiguity over pricing. Some feel Network Solutions is asking for too high a price. "$12 to me is absolutely insane," says Tom McDonald, founder of domainwatch.com, a service that tracks the domain name registrations of all registrars. "Who knows? They'll probably get it. They've got quite a bit of pull and they've been around a while." McDonald says a fair price would be less than $1 a year. Others remain a bit more sanguine. In his valuation model, Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst Ulrich Weil, who has a buy rating and $300 price target on the company, forecasts a $10 registry fee. That would give Network Solutions fiscal year 2000 revenue of $275 million. And Keith Benjamin, an analyst with BancBoston Robertson Stephens, which has been an underwriter for Network Solutions, believes "something in the range of $10 to $16 per domain name per year would be fair and reasonable to expect."