Re: [alac] Analysis of .coop, .museum, and .aero renewals

[Wendy Seltzer <wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:07 PM 12/30/2005, John R Levine wrote:
> > Yes, and I thought the application fees were supposed to cover
> > ICANN's evaluation and negotiation costs.  The ongoing oversight
> > costs to ICANN for a TLD should be negligible, especially if it has
> > few registrants.
>
> Maybe, maybe not.  Consider the name speculation mess in .pro.

Right, which is why ICANN should stay out of those messes, ideally by 
not requiring applicants for TLDs to propose constrained eligible 
populations they'll then want to expand.

But then I've always thought sponsored TLDs were a bad idea.  ICANN 
should not be in the business of monitoring domain users' activities 
or business, nor of delegating those responsibilities to 
non-consensus "sponsors."

--Wendy


> Oversight of an unsponsored TLD where anyone can sign up should be easy.
>
> Sponsored TLDs are turning out to be painful, partly in case the sponsor
> doesn't enforce the rules, partly because they all find out that nobody
> wants to register and they come back and ask for special treatment to make
> it easier, or relax the rules, or whatever.
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet 
> for Dummies",
> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor
> "I shook hands with Senators Dole and Inouye," said Tom, disarmingly.

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Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html
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