RE: [alac] regional, cultural, city TLDs

["Sebastian Ricciardi" <sricciardi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Bret,

Without doubts, several groups of people will start asking for their own
identifier. And they should be entitled to ask for it , indeed!!!

Why should ICANN grants the registry business to some guys promoting .AERO
(and other sponsored TLDs) and not for those who think their special
interest deserve a new gTLD! Specially when we have cultural and national
concerns (please note that I´m using the word national as was previosly
discussed).

The situation is worst as Anette noticed a few months a go, when ICANN
approves the use of a VERY generic term like .JOBS as a sponsored and
restricted domain.

What are we afraid of? The registry loosing its business? Can´t they be
forced by contract to respect some good practices and audit the registries
every 6 months? And if one of them get out of business, can´t ICANN move
those registration to another registry operator? I´m sure that the entrant
companies like Afilias or anyone else would love to receive registration
form those operators that run out of business. 

I still don´t understand how the existence of several gTLDs goes against the
security and stability of the Net.

Best, 

Sebastian



-----Mensaje original-----
De: owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx] En nombre de Bret
Fausett
Enviado el: Martes, 17 de Enero de 2006 04:54 p.m.
Para: ALAC
Asunto: [alac] regional, cultural, city TLDs

As this article about .SCOT ("Dot Scot") illustrates, the issue we've been
discussing about local TLDs is only going to expand, perhaps exponentially
as groups feel they need to compete with other cultural and local groups for
space on the net.

    http://www.ngfl.gov.uk/news.jsp?sec=5&cat=99&res=91818

     -- Bret

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