Re: ICANN proposes new way to buy top-level domains - Network World

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" <ocl () gih com>
Date: October 30, 2008 5:01:03 AM EDT
To: <dave () farber net>, "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] ICANN proposes new way to buy top-level domains -  
Network World

Debate about this subject has gone on forever and taken much time at  
the ICANN Paris
meeting, and no doubt will also at the Cairo meeting next week.

Why does it always generate so much interest, whilst many other issued  
are left aside, or
given 2nd level citizenship? (Spam, IPv4 to IPv6 migration etc.)

Because domain names are imagined by a vast majority of participants  
as being the key to
making a fortune - a way to print dollars.

This might have been true in the past, but that's because a restricted  
number of
organisations had a cut of the cake.

With the introduction of hundreds of new top level domains, it is  
wishful thinking to
believe that the cake will grow accordingly. It will grow a little,  
but not proportionally
to the number of domains offered, especially when one reaches the  
hundreds of new top
level domains.

So what you have really, is a cake that's a bit larger, but a lot of  
new entrants, and
this, in effect, means that many of the new entrants will not get so  
much more than a
crumb of the cake itself, especially if competition heats up on pricing.

ICANN seems to have made the first barrier to entry a financial one. I  
am not sure whether
this is the right way to do things, but what I am absolutely convinced  
about is that of
the hundreds of new top level domain applicants being accepted, there  
will be quite a few
resounding failures which might cool the frenzy down in a few years'  
time.

We will look back and think: "Why did we waste so much time on top  
level domains when we
should have worked more on IPv4 to IPv6 migration?"

Olivier

--
Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond, Ph.D
Global Information Highway Ltd
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Farber" <dave () farber net>
To: "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:44 PM
Subject: [IP] ICANN proposes new way to buy top-level domains -  
Network World


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>  ICANN proposes new way to buy top-level domains
> By Grant Gross , IDG News Service , 10/28/2008
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> ICANN is seeking comments on a proposal that would open up the market
> for generic top-level domains (TLDs) on the Internet, basically
> allowing anyone with US$185,000 to buy a new TLD.
>
> The plan from Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
> would allow third parties to object to proposed TLDs on several
> grounds, but the proposal is an attempt to open up a TLD process that
> has been cumbersome in the past. ICANN would charge groups $185,000 to
> apply for a generic TLD, with most of the money going toward
> evaluation of the application.
>
> {what does the above mean -- $185000 to evaluate it  -- first class
> travel .. ?? djf
>
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