Re: [alac] Business Week

[Annette Muehlberg <annette.muehlberg@xxxxxx>]

Yeah. And people will find our website even more easily as soon as we 
have a clear visible pointer from the ICANN-run ALAC website 
(http://alac.icann.org/) to the ALAC-run ALAC website 
(http://www.icannalac.org/).

And we finally have to clarify which content should be continued to be 
updated on the ICANN-run website and which should be totally transferred 
to the new ALAC website.

Jean, as you are our ALAC-"head" of communication, you could get 
directly in touch with Paul Levins, the new ICANN Executive Officer and 
Vice President - Corporate Affairs, we talked to in Marrakech, and come 
up with a proposal how to deal most efficiently with both websites.

Best
Annette


Jean Armour Polly wrote:

> Hi, yesterday I got a phone call from a California reporter from 
> Business Week, I don't know how he tracked me down but he did. He had 
> seen ALAC's interest in domain name tasting/kiting and wanted to know 
> more about it. As an end user himself he congratulated us in 
> investigating it/getting it on ICANN's radar.
>
> I said that we were in very early days--we had asked staff to give us 
> an advisory paper on it, and that based on that we might choose to ask 
> for an issues report, which might or might not lead to a policy 
> development process. I pointed out that ALAC was only at the beginning 
> steps of its research on the topic, and also that I did not speak for 
> ALAC. I said this a couple of times.
>
> I was able to point him to articles posted on the topic in our Hot 
> Topics section, as well as the transcript of the Domain Name 
> Monetization Workshop in Marrakech, where a couple solutions were 
> proffered. He was very happy for the pointers (thanks Jacqueline and 
> Wendy for alerting me to them in the first place!)
>
> I did say that speaking for myself alone that I felt that Domain Name 
> Tasting was an abuse of the 5-day add-drop period, giving a free ride 
> to the tasters, and that the resulting ad farms were cluttering up my 
> search results and that I didn't like it.
>
> But I also reiterated that I was speaking for myself and also said 
> that many prefer that ICANN should work on IDN (for example) before 
> Domain Name Tasting.
>
> I think it is great that a reporter found our website useful!!
>
> JP