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Daniel,
I agree with your opinions on individuals that claim to
own the rights to particular TLDs. In the last round of TLD additions, it was
determined that no one can copyright a TLD, specifically proven in the case of
.xxx, as the letters 'XXX' have been a recognized symbol owned by no one for
many years. The claims for .TLD copyright ownership are without merit, to say
the least.
I will agree with you that organizations owning a domain
in New.net's .xxx or .travel probably do not have any hope of holding claim to
their domain, be it legally or through the UDRP. They chose to register with an
alternative system, and now competition is what they are getting. However, I do
not agree that they should not have ownership of their domains if .travel and
.xxx are added to the DNS. This is just another bad faith decision by ICANN. If
they did not want New.net to handle the registry duties for those TLDs, then
they could have chosen someone that would grandfather currently registered
domains over. Alternate systems are only attempting to right all of the wrongs
that ICANN has done in the past. In ICANN, we have an organization that has no
oversight or accountability, and that rules over the DNS as it pleases. I
thought Milton Mueller's paper on alternative systems was especially insightful.
We have no other way to change operations at ICANN, especially once they
stripped the At Large Membership of all of its power. If ICANN really cared
about the Internet, they would grandfather .travel and .xxx domains registered
with New.net, because it is the right thing to do for the Internet. But I think
we all know that they will not do that, because it might diminish ICANN's
power.
Aaron
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Aaron
D. Sanders
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Second year
student in the Master of Science in Information Technology program at Rochester
Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science in Information Systems - Clarion
University of Pennsylvania
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