Totally Opposed to ICANN's Proposal on .biz

[Alan Reid <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To the ICANN BoD,

I'm opposed to the pricing contract proposal by ICANN. It would be
essentially, like handing over to the registry level, a blank check that
will create an anti-competitive atmosphere which in the end, will hinder or
destroy the very nature of the original concept of the internet and will
ultimately destroy what has been created so far.

As for any concerns about the infrastructure of the internet being
supplemented by these pricing structures, that is a complete distortion.
The telecom's, cable companies, the free enterprise system and the server
networks around the world are the infrastructure that has the momentum to
build upon itself so in reality, this extra money that the registries say
they need will most likely go to management and/or stockholders of these
registries rather than into the existing infrastructure that has done quite
well so far without help from the registry level.

I'm also opposed to how ICANN has handled this issue so far. If they want
to be considered a world body representing an entity (the internet) that
represents everyone on the planet, then ICANN needs to act more at an
international level, be more transparent and more open by making themselves
more available to the internet population as a whole rather than by
geographical influences and using tactics that can be easily be overlooked
by the general public that has a stake in the internet. That is politics at
it's worst. It's like trying to sneak something into a bill hoping no one
will notice.

Whether it be at the registry or registrar level, ICANN should make a rule
that insures that all domain holders are updated to any and all proposed
changes in order to keep them well advised to what is on the horizon rather
than by the short notice that they gave in this instance. By your approach
on this issue, it seems to me that a bias by influence has impeded any
common sense to what's best for the internet. Rather, it stinks of being
bias and only beneficial to the registries themselves.

If a registry is so bent on making more money by a tiered system, then they
need to start out at the ground floor level by contracting with a country,
securing their ccTLD and doing something similar as .tv registry is doing.
That way, a domain holder is buying into a system knowing exactly what they
are buying into instead of creating a new system that takes advantage of
the well rooted domain holders of an existing system. They don't want to
buy into this proposal of yours so it is absolutely unfair to even be
proposing to change the rules in the middle of the game!

Sincerely,
Alan Reid


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