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Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop () yahoo com>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 14:41:03 -0400
Steve Gibbard wrote:
Note that there are a lot more TLDs than just .COM, .NET, .ORG, etc. The vast majority of them are geographical rather than divided based on organizational function. For large portions of the world, the local TLD allows domain holders to get a domain paid for in local currency, for a price that's locally affordable, with local DNS servers for the TLD. For gTLDs they'd have to pay in US dollars, at prices that are set for Americans, and have them served far away on the other ends of expensive and flaky International transit connections.
Elimination of TLDs would in no way mandate that people register domains from one global entity. Today we have multiple entities registering domains back to multiple authorities, why not just have one authority and allow for multiple regional registrars. TLDs just add confusion to everything, and add complexity to the back-end.
Perhaps there is a better list to move this discussion to, if someone would point me in that direction I would be glad to check it out.
-Jim P.
Current thread:
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain, (continued)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Jim Popovitch (May 11)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Fred Baker (May 11)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Jim Popovitch (May 11)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Martin Hannigan (May 11)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain David Ulevitch (May 11)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Fred Baker (May 12)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Doug Barton (May 12)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain william(at)elan.net (May 12)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Michael . Dillon (May 12)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Steve Gibbard (May 12)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Jim Popovitch (May 12)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Todd Vierling (May 12)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Barry Shein (May 12)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Todd Vierling (May 12)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Barry Shein (May 12)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Eric Brunner-Williams (May 12)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Simon Waters (May 15)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Michael . Dillon (May 15)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Peter Dambier (May 15)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Niels Bakker (May 15)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Peter Dambier (May 12)