Re: [ga] Responses by .biz/info/org Registry Operators are Unacceptable

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Then we definitely agree. The only reason I suggest ICANN be involved in
this one is that I don't believe a $50,000 registration fee should be
charged for someone wishing to create a public benefit TLD. I wish ICANN to
waive this fee and make concessions for the creation of dot NGO or NPO which
should be a restricted TLD and go to an operator that is a public benefit
org.

Not my org for those wondering if I have an agenda. I don't wish to run it.
I just want there to be a legitimate nonprofit TLD and wish there was
representation for public benefit nonprofits within the ICANN supporting
structure.

Chris McElroy aka NameCritic



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "George Kirikos" <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>; <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
<org-tld-agreement@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:11 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] Responses by .biz/info/org Registry Operators are
Unacceptable


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> I think I must have failed to fully express what I wanted to say.
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> It's my feeling that any "meaning" that is associated with a TLD is the
> business of the users and operator of that TLD, not the business of ICANN.
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> So if you (.ewe?) or I (.eye?) want to start up a TLD and say that it is
> for people who want to set up a mesh of brain wave transfer servers,
> then that's for us to say.
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> But it's not ICANN's role to sit up there on its throne, looking down
> onto the internet and say "Let there be a TLD named .dog for websites
> with content for dyxlexics".
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> ICANN's proper role is merely to inquire whether an operator, potential
> or real, is adhering to widely accepted, published internet *technical*
> standards.  And for that they merely need a simple one page checklist,
> and a very small ($50?) application fee to cover costs (assuming a
> proper sized ICANN rather than the bloated money pit that it has become.)
>
> --karl--
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