So your argument could have been phrased 'Personally, i disagree that all commodity businesses are really commodity businesses'?

What you were actually challenging was his characterization of domain registration as a commodity business; I don't disagree with you there, I just wanted your point clarified.

>So your argument could have been phrased 'Personally, i disagree that all commodity businesses are really commodity businesses'?

Well, no. It's a continuum, rather than a black and white thing. I wrote a long argument then edited it back to the wikipedia quote, as that mostly sums things up.

My business is more 'commodity' I think, than slicehost, mostly because of the marketing angles we take. Obviously, the market for a certain grade of steel is far more of a commodity, though I suspect that if I knew more about that market, I'd find it was less than an absolute commodity.