Re: [gnso-vi-feb10] Competition authorities

[Antony Van Couvering <avc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Because there are likely to be -- if this doesn't take so long that everyone's 
completely exhausted, morally and financially, before the new gTLD round starts 
-- small registries that are simply not going to be interesting to registrars 
(because of their size), or for which existing registrars will not be 
appropriate (because they don't support the registry's language, for instance). 
  In these cases, it makes perfect sense to have a registry and registrar 
integrated.  

This is the case for many small ccTLDs, for instance, and they are a good case 
in point.  Even if (to pick on them) GoDaddy does decide to carry .bt (Bhutan), 
it will be pretty hard to get to (low on a drop-down list), and it certainly 
won't be in the Bhutanese language or alphabet.  That same dynamic will apply 
for .zulu or .kurd or .berber.


On Apr 21, 2010, at 5:11 AM, Avri Doria wrote:

> Why do people think that there will lots of application that include 
> cross-ownership?  for example in AVC message I felt like this was going to be 
> a road block for every poor little new registry and I did not understand that.