Re: [alac] Business Week

[Annette Muehlberg <annette.muehlberg@xxxxxx>]

Too bad, that we did not get those informations earlier - I will barely 
be able to take part in the upcoming discussion, as I am taking off for 
vacation (tuesday) until the 11th of august. No internet in the hotel.
Best
Annette

Wendy Seltzer wrote:

> 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