[gtld-council] Regarding non-commercial interests in the gTLD market

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

> 
> I disagree with the idea that there won't be any non-commercial 
> interests in the market, so we don't need to build protection 
> for their 
> interests into the policy.

Actually as a point of fact there already are non-commercial interests
in the gTLD market.

At least the following gTLDs are operated by non-commercial
organisations today:

.org (Public Interest Registry)

.museum (Museum Domain Management Association)

.asia (The dotASIA organisation)

In fact if we sampled all TLDs (gtlds and ccTLDs) - non-commercial
organisations operating a TLD probably out number commercial
organisations.

Also please don't assume that a non-commercial organisation has no
resources (either people or financial).   There is no direct correlation
between the ability of an organisation to meet any criteria related to
organisational capability and its non-commercial or commercial status.

On the freedom of speech argument - there is no direct correlation
between non-commercial organisations and freedom of speech they are
different concepts.  Commercial organisations that support freedom of
speech may outnumber non-commercial :-)



Regards,
Bruce Tonkin