Re: [alac] Do we care about *.travel ?

[Annette Muehlberg <annette.muehlberg@xxxxxx>]

woul be great if you came up with some comments, additional to 
individual ones, we send in in the name of ALAC.
best
Annette

John L wrote:

> Tralliance wants a wildcard in .travel. Their proposal says it'd be 
> just like the one in .museum, but it's not, it'll drop you on a page 
> that offers to sell you the domain and links to their search engine. 
> The original plan for the search engine was that it would be full of 
> .travel domains, but when I take a look at search.travel I see a small 
> number of .travel domains and a whole lot of ask.com paid search results.
>
> The question is what our position as the ALAC is. On the one hand, 
> .travel is just another failed sTLD, who cares. On the other hand, 
> it's a dreadful precedent, would make it easier for TLDs that do 
> matter to get wildcards, and reinforces the bad idea that registries 
> are entitled to do whatever they want to squeeze money out of people.
>
> ICANN has started a comment period that ends on October 18th, so we 
> could send in our comments on time for a change.
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for 
> Dummies",
> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://johnlevine.com, Mayor
> "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.