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R8R, your intentions may in fact be genuine, but your points are clouded
with inaccuracies and a glaring lack of understanding of what is and what would be.
The REALITY, in fact, is that at this point an ENORMOUS amount of absolutely incredible
.webs are available for anyone to register. I'd be willing to bet you that I could
present a list of 20,000 words that all rank in the top 10% of search engine terms
and are still available for registration in the .web TLD. Let me know if you're game.
Secondly, and this is VERY important so please read it twice: If they "wipe the database"
and start over, I can ASSURE you that within minutes of the new database being opened
all the top 100k terms (or more) would be taken by professionals ....those who have
the know-how and skills to quikly move in and grab these names....and any scheme
that ICANN dreams up to prevent such a thing from happening would most certainly
prove ludicrously inept. At that point the situation would be MUCH WORSE....all the
best .webs would belong to MUCH FEWER people and without a doubt PROFESSIONALS. As
it stands, (IOD registered) .web's belong to people from 75 different countries,
have been slowly registered over that past 5 years by people with intentions of development,
and are contained in the registry of a company (IOD / WebTLD) which was given explicit
instructions by the fathers of ICANN (IANA) to GO AHEAD AND START TAKING PAID REGISTRATIONS
FOR .WEB. Read that again, if you would. When ICANN was formed to take over the duties
from IANA, one of it's key mission statements was that it NOT DRASTICALLY CHANGE
anything previously set in motion by IANA. There are many "sour grapers" out there,
but the truth of the matter is that they are only saying what they are saying becuase
they too want a shot at business.web ....but they are sadly mistaken if they think
they would ever have a shot at it given a wash of the present database. THEY WON'T.
But, they CAN go register some .web's while ten's of thousands of excellent ones
are still available, are being registered in a civilized and controlled manner, AND
by a pioneer registry that was set up in accordance with IANA approval in 1996. We
all make our choices and we must live with them ....funny how sometimes people don't
realize the choice they are pushing for will in fact end up turning on them, when
the most opportune situation is right in front of them for the taking. Hoist by one's
own petard, I believe they say. You can ride the wave, or let it come crashing down
on you...Your choice. Now, where's that surfboard of mine... Regards, -Bartender P.S.
Hey WorldThoughts, I loved your post. VERY well written. It should be read by many.
Keep up the good work!
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Message Thread:
- IOD, .web, and a dose of Reality, folks. WorldThoughts, June 17 @ 5:08 PM (9/21)
- Gratulation, WorldThoughts! - Let me add a few thoughts of myself. friedrich, June 20 @ 9:49 PM (0/0)
- Well said. Lotus, June 19 @ 6:18 PM (0/0)
- Your Coments are Bang-on frank s., June 18 @ 7:03 PM (0/0)
- I totally agree saskia, June 18 @ 2:43 PM (0/0)
- Another Dose of Reality R8R, June 18 @ 12:07 AM (2/3)
- IODesign can't handle it Venster, June 17 @ 10:54 PM (1/1)
- IOD and .web fnord, June 17 @ 8:59 PM (1/2)
- .WEB and IOD jmgraham, June 17 @ 8:11 PM (2/3)
- BRAVO!!! A worthwhile read. Merlin, June 17 @ 7:59 PM (1/3)
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