Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] Tacit assumptions?

["Michele Neylon :: Blacknight" <michele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 Apr 2010, at 16:33, Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> I am wondering whether we are not tacitly assuming things that are not 
> necessarily true. 
> I keep hearing that the new gTLDs, as small startups, will be in a very weak 
> commercial position and not be ableto influence the market.
> 
> This might well be true, as the examples given show for the past, but I 
> wonder whether we are not constraining our framework to the current situation 
> and making assumptions on the fance that the future will look like the past.
> 
> Let me give you an example. 
> The majority of the traffic in the list talks about the case of 
> .MyTinyCommunity, or .MyBigBrand. It might be well true that this will be the 
> vast majority of the proposed new gTLDs, but are we taking into account the 
> fact that the rules and policy have to be applied for *all* new gTLDs 
> equally? Aren't we forgetting something?
> 
> It might be because we have chosen conference call times that are 
> prohibitive, for instance, for members residing in East Asia, or also because 
> East Asian cultures are less assertive than Americans and Europeans, that 
> dominate this list, but do not people think that we have elephants in the 
> room like a possible .com in chinese characters? Wouldn't that TLD have 
> potentially huge registrations in fairly short time? Wouldn't that TLD be 
> operated in a completely different way than a niche TLD? Wouldn't the amount 
> of money on the table in that case be an incentive for "creative" behaviours 
> that might bend completely the rules and policies we want to establish, if 
> these rules are not strong enough and with enough safeguards?
> 
> I am under the impression that we tacitly think that IDNs will remain limited 
> to the "fast track", country-related IDN TLDs. This is not true. Or, at 
> least, not necessarily true.
> 
> Or am I missing something? 
> Cheers, 
> Roberto
> 

Roberto

Well we could try to talk  about .ourcommercialfailure :) 

The thing is that it's highly unlikely that anyone is going to come up with a 
TLD concept that will unseat the incumbents in terms of market domination.

So it's only natural that those of us who get a little bit tired of being 
treated like petulant children by some people would focus on what we view as we 
being realistic projections in terms of market dominance (or more precisely, 
the distinct lack of it).

Regards

Michele

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