Re: Does anyone in ICANN understand market competition?

["vinton g. cerf" <vinton.g.cerf@xxxxxxxx>]

milton why are you surprised? I was just trying to find out what is the
distinction between the offerings of .name and the proposed offerings of
dot iii.

vint

At 12:08 PM 12/11/2002 -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:
> >Bret,
> >
> >why doesn't .name fulfill this need already?
> >
> >vint
> I am surprised at this comment. 
>  
> .name is purportedly a name space for individual
> users, but users must fit into a hierarchical 
> structure controlled by the registry and it 
> must
> also use email services provided by the registry
> operator. 
>  
> Some consumers might like this. Others might
> not. Why not let them decide? 
> We don't tell Toyota that we won't allow them
> to sell cars because we already have GM And
> Ford.
> Why should we tell .iii that we don't need it
> because
> we have some tangentially related TLD? 
>  
>

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