3rd Proposal from Imran on EOI - gTLDs
3rd Proposal for Expressions of Interest in New gTLDs Submitted to M/s ICANN By Imran Ahmed Shah [+92 300 4130617] [ICANNian since 36th ICANN Seoul Meeting] PAKISTAN 11 December 2009 =================================================================================================== 3rd Proposal for Expressions of Interest in New gTLDs Objective: Some suggestions for the review through related workgroups and public comments. Reference: Expressions of Interest in New gTLDs My Vision: I believe that ICANN will remain not- for-profit organization and will facilitate Globalization and Localization capabilities to all users who are enjoying with the Internet Layer on the map of the World and new layers are going to be launched to provide more opportunities to acquire property at Internet world. PROPOSAL: I propose (for ICANN) that: • New TLDs should be a general Name Script. • For example instead of .Nokia, it should be .Camera • There should be two type of gTLDs name script to be offered, Commercial and Non-Commercial NON-COMMERCIAL: • Non-Commercial gTLDs should be proposed by someone (individual or organization) and there should be three options, 1. Just propose, 2. Propose and maintain with the financial support but either 3rd part or ICANN, 3. Propose and maintain with showing enough resources and infrastructure. • The non-commercial name script should be evaluated for public support through online survey. • If the Idea Generator don’t show the interest to maintain the registry himself, ICANN may host it at L-Root Server. COMMERCIAL: • New commercial gTLDs may please be maintained by ICANN itself when the conflict arises or more than one applicant is appeared and they could not resolve the conflict in 1st or second round. Now the idea is this that instead of giving it to new higher bidder candidates (as a Registry) it should be maintained by ICANN itself. Existing Registry setup will remain continue. The other Commercial gTLDs which have no conflict in 3rd round of application processing will be able to allocate the registry ownership. • ICANN should maintain (additional IT infrastructure) to host Clustered ROOT SERVERS to enable these new gTLDs (in addition to existing root servers). • Existing REGISTRARS will be enabled by the ICANN to start the domain registration with new TLDs. • Multi-Stake holders and Government representatives of different countries may be allowed to maintain their own Clustered ROOT SERVERS to protect their concerns. PROS: • I appreciate that ICANN has invested significant amount of time and cost in development current model but I understand that the ICANN has already absorbed costs. The current model appears to be passing these costs incurred over past few years to the commercial market that will simply pass it on to end users. • Consumers and end users will benefit from consistent level of services, fair pricing model and unbiased approach across the globe from most reliable organization they can depend on. • It will reduce the conflicts of Intellectual Property Rights of multi-stake holders and geographically distributed communities (who may demand for the same name scripts). • It will improve the Policies Implementation process & control for DNSSEC, Data Integrity & Stability. • It will improve the implementation of ICANN policy to provide equal opportunity and transparency. • It will reduce the chances for coming into the situation to resolve the conflicts through bidding competitions. • And finally, it will increase the number of domains registration (calculated on yearly basis). • Will help to bridge between digital divide between non developed and developed countries and territories. Commercial users and non-commercial users of the Internet layers. • Will ensure transparency. • Will increase competition level and will reduce monopoly of the richest organizations and CONS: • It may be not acceptable for new REGISTRY CANDIDATES, (but will not affect existing business of Registries. • It may be called that it is going to be centralized instead of decentralization. (but actually it will protect ICANN Globalization Policy against the divided internet territories on the map of the Internet World.) • It may reflect that ICANN is generating its monopoly, Justification: This is not fact that the proposed model will create monopoly of the ICANN, actually in this way ICANN is creating more expansion of the domain business opportunities in the domain name business with the fair price model and transparency with reducing conflicts. If any richest organization wins bidding after paying the huge amount in fourth round, they will definitely shift this cost to the users. Here to obtain a higher fee / price of two level domain, they will also reduce the competition and will try to develop their monopoly and will also going to divide the user levels of digital world. So, ICANN should try to reduce this kind of monopoly condition or the conflicts to reach on the bidding level. The only way is this that such cases should be resolved before reaching to the worst condition. ICANN may devise its subsidiary but on the basis of non-for-profit. ============================================================================== (just for a fun) I also propose a title names: • For ICANN staff as “The ICANNinas” and • For ICANN Fellowship Members + Alumni as “ICANNians” Imran Ahmed Shah [+92 300 4130617] [ICANNian since 36th Seoul Meeting] Attachment:
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