Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] Depressing consequences

[Stéphane Van Gelder <stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for that Jeff. A very useful reminder of the way some registries were 
given a chance to grow.

Stéphane

Le 16 avr. 2010 à 22:09, Jeff Eckhaus a écrit :

> 
> Keith - wasn't it the case when the incumbent registries were startups they 
> owned Registrars and were able to sell their own TLDs ? 
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> I am stealing this from a previous presentation by Tindal but I believe that 
> the following Registries allowed cross-ownership in the past during these 
> time periods . When they were start-ups
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> 2001 to 2009 AERO agreement
> 2001 to 2007 COOP agreement
> 2001 to 2007 NAME agreement
> 2001 to 2007 MUSEUM agreement
> 2001 to 2006 BIZ agreement
> 2001 to 2006 INFO agreement
> 2003 to 2006 ORG agreement
> 2002 till current PRO agreement
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Drazek, Keith
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> To: 'Milton L Mueller'; 'Antony Van Couvering'; Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gnso-vi-feb10] Depressing consequences
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> 
> By what standard/definition?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Milton L Mueller [mailto:mueller@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 4:00 PM
> To: Drazek, Keith; 'Antony Van Couvering'; Gnso-vi-feb10@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gnso-vi-feb10] Depressing consequences
> 
> And how many of those new TLDs can be considered successful? 
> 
>> Milton, while the current separation system may have originally been
>> designed to address the legacy monopoly of .com/.net/.org, it was also
>> in place for all subsequent new TLDs before their first domains were
>> registered. The 15% ownership cap and functional separation
>> requirements extended well beyond "incumbent registries with market
>> power in established TLDs." Neustar, Afilias, Tralliance, Telnic and
>> the rest were once start-ups too. Regards, Keith
>> 
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