Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] Competition authorities

[Antony Van Couvering <avc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Delightful!  Let's have multiple regulators!  

Surely, because there will always be at least one customer in Europe, the EU 
should have their say as well.  That will definitely provide an easy 
path-to-market for small registries, result in innovation, bring down prices 
and ultimately -- as a result of the fairness thus enforced, and the trust thus 
bestowed-- benefit the consumer.   In ten years time, that is, when all these 
competition authorities have finished their reviews.  Assuming the registry is 
not moribund by then....


On Apr 20, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Avri Doria wrote:

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> On 20 Apr 2010, at 18:17, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote:
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>>> That said,  I don't know what would stop an applicant from incorporating in 
>>> a jurisdiction where competition 
>>> authorities are known to be extremely liberal, or non-existent.  
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>> Which is what anyone who wanted to "game" a system would do.
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> One of the thoughts that I had on that was that since ICANN is incorporated 
> in the US, the US competition authorities would always end up  being 
> consulted as well as any local ones.  
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> a.
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