I advocated changing ccTLD's to three or four letters, thus ccTLD .co would no longer
be two letters. Then co-ops could use .co (rather than .coop).I advocated
changing a SLD (.co) to .com (for example: change .co.uk to .com.brit). That
is not duplicating a ccTLD (.co) or a G-TLD (.com) at all. (A SLD is not a
TLD.)
I advocate forcing existing businesses, that have unauthorized TLD's, to
form partnerships with other entities simply because ICANN chooses to force a duplication
of their business product, because the U.S. government has sole authority over the
Internet which it delegated to ICANN.
I have NOT suggested restraint of trade and
price fixing. I suggested that the UNAUTHORIZED registries merge into joint-venture
non-profit registries, just like several registERs have created in the form of Afilias
(the Official dot-info Registry authorized by ICANN).
Any disenfranchising of registrants
who have paid for multi-year registrations (up to 10 years) is due to the fact that
those registrations were invalid (unauthorized by the official Internet authority).