Re: [alac] Business Week

[Wendy Seltzer <wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's great, Jean.  It will be even better when we get the briefing 
analysis and can keep moving forward on the issue.   Bruce, any updates?

Thanks,
--Wendy

At 02:00 PM 7/29/2006 -0400, 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

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Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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