I thought I made my last comments earlier however I did one last look at the (Background
section with regards to the gTLD debate)....I must have missed it...but I will not
let this slide...Here are a couple of comments from ICANN: "One concern
sometimes raised in this connection is that .com may have become so highly preferred
in the market to any other TLD that effective competion among open TLDs is no longer
likely. Those raising this concern sometimes point out that .com enjoys a vastly
superior market share compared to .net and .org, with .com accounting for 80% of
the total registrations in .com, .net, and .org. This predominance of .com registrations
continues even though all three TLDs are offered by 45 registrars fiercely trying
to sell registrations."
MY COMMENT: This is precisely the reason why
.web needs to be in the domain space...If .com continues to stamp out the competition...Network
Solutions (who owns most of them) and certain dot.com names will literally own the
internet....WHY dot web....It is the most widely recognized domain in the world...I
wonder how the asian community would feel about a .shop or .banc (with a "c")...My
guess is dot web would be more familiar to them than the other two..I get the feeling
ICANN knows this, my question to them is take a serious look at the comments...made
above...and then take a look at the entire community....then assess...(especially
in the gTLD selection phase and registry phase)..Worrying that dot web is too close
to dot com and would confuse is wrong for the fact that dot com as you say has the
name recognition...what would dot web do that dot net hasn't????? (I realize I speak
on the defensive--maybe you ICANN do not feel this way...however your words speak
VOLUME)..
Comment number 2 (from ICANN---that sounded a bit like the IPC comments
left on this board):
"In fact, the number of second-level domain names within
a single TLD is quite large (over 1098) and claims that any particular TLD is effectively
exhausted are, as a technical matter, misplaced. (Even .com has only approximately
108 names registered). Some, however, have noted that the group of useful or desirable
names is much smaller than the total theoretically possible. While this observation
is correct, even a slight lengthening of possible second-level domain names increases
the availabile possibilities much more dramatically than the addition of new TLDs.
For example, under the currently followed format rules increasing second-level domain-name
length by one character multiplies the possible domain names by 37, while adding
three new TLDs similar to .com, .net, and .org would only double them"
MY COMMENTS
TO ICANN: I realize you wanted comments on your comments I pasted above...however
read your comments carefully...everything is worded as if your mind is made up....Not
good...I believe over the past 5 years since the last proposal to upload new gTLD's
(.web) things have drastically changed....Adding characters to a second level domain
DOES NOT help a person just getting into a ecommece venture...Unfortunately the internet
has gone commercial...we must accept that...so we can add all kinds of characters
to increase a supply, but all that will do is make dot com's that much more valuable...What
ever happen to choice and competition...from your comments (again you appear to have
your mind made up) you seem that if new gTLD's (more than 2) then chaos will occur....IF
UDRP is working...and other forms of recourse for TM holders...then what is there
to fear...I think a great US president said it best.."There is nothing to fear, but
fear itself"....Masking the situation as grave and unecessary almost puts your authority
into question (again I am the consensus type person)...For those that do not have
the power to act...are in a sense lame ducks (for a lack of a better term)...Your
direction should not be to come up with ideas that make a system even more scare
dom's (unecessarily)...by adding characters to a second level domain....And yes..I
will be honest I do have my reasons for wanting new domains to come out...I have
been open about that however I ALWAYS back up my claims in a logical, common sense
approach...For instance...I would like to start www.killer.web (a name I registered
through (IOD)....I cannot possibly compete with www.killer.a.com (what your comments
above proposed by adding a character to a second level domain).....GOOD DAY! and
remember think about the massess that would like to compete with an existing dot
com....Saying well go out and get www.Killerthecompany.com is fine...however shouldn't
we have more choice to the DNS...History has proven when choice and compeition is
limited...well...Your "testbed" for this scenario is happening right now...It's called
Network Solutions...(DISCLAIMER: These opinions are not meant to be decisive
or totally bent towards my needs....it's just a wake up call for anyone that adheres
to a logical approach to things)....Thanks! Greg Krajewski