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Re: not really ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 27 Mar 2011 22:15:23 -0400
No. They knew about that when they applied.You are mistaken. This was a lively subject of negotiation involving Louis Touton and the parties. I was involved as well. There was real shock when Louis came back from the Registrar Constituency with the message that rather than the initial registrar-free budget of initial registrations, the working number was _0_.
If their application was predicated on ICANN changing the rules, I can't feel very sorry for them. And in any event, it's a bit much to claim that the difference between 300,000 registrations and 6400 registrations is that people have to find a registrar. If there were really 293,600 people eager to register if they could only find a coopful registrar, I'd expect we'd have a few,
Actually, if you look at the registry reports, there was a burst of about 18,000 domains in .CAT the first year, the annual growth rate has been considerably less than 10K/yr and it is if anything slowing down. From the Nov 10 report, the most recent one ICANN has published, to today, the growth is about 1000, which extrapolates to under 3500/yr, so it'll catch up with the nearby ccTLDs several centuries from now, if ever. I can't find the business plan of the .CAT application on ICANN's web site, but I'd be pretty surprised if it predicted numbers anywhere near that low.I'll ask Nacho or Jordi tomorrow morning to comment. You could be right.
It's all in the reports on the ICANN web site, except for the current count which I got by grepping the zone file. No secrets there.
Regards, John Levine, johnl () iecc com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
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- Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet, (continued)
- Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet Eric Brunner-Williams (Mar 26)
- Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet John Levine (Mar 26)
- RE: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet Stefan Fouant (Mar 26)
- Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet Eric Brunner-Williams (Mar 27)
- Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet John Levine (Mar 27)
- Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet Eric Brunner-Williams (Mar 27)
- Re: not really ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet John Levine (Mar 27)
- Re: not really ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet Eric Brunner-Williams (Mar 27)
- Re: not really ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet John R. Levine (Mar 27)
- Re: not really ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet Eric Brunner-Williams (Mar 27)
- Re: not really ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet John R. Levine (Mar 27)
- Re: not really ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet Tony Finch (Mar 29)
- Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet Barry Shein (Mar 27)
- Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet Donald Eastlake (Mar 27)
- Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet William Herrin (Mar 27)
- RE: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet George Bonser (Mar 26)
- Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet Marshall Eubanks (Mar 26)
- RE: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet Stefan Fouant (Mar 26)
- Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet Mans Nilsson (Mar 26)