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Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies


From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner () nic-naa net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:42:03 -0400

On 7/26/10 12:45 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
You forgot the fifth option.

Invade a country (invasion is not strictly required) and take over
control of their ccTLD which probably does not have an agreement with
ICANN so you can charge and do as you please. Many of the greedy
registrars will be more than happy to sell the name ...

Umm, I wish there had been more people who paid attention when the .iq registry was subject to ... a voluntary change of control resulting in ... things being done as one pleased.

But I do take your point about .co/.com, and in all fairness, it is a decade delayed favor returned by NeuStar to Verisign for the .bz/.biz "collaborative marketing" ploy of 2001.

When Hewlett-Packard wrote to ICANN earlier this year that it should get .hp, the obvious rejoinder was "Buy a country like everyone else, submit a change request to the iso3166/MA, and do business under .hp, your new country code property." Apparently HP didn't want to actually buy a country first. Cheapskates.

Now seriously, just how many pages of the IV Initial Report did you read before coming up with "the fifth option"?

Eric


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