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Username: kingtodd
Date/Time: Sun, July 9, 2000 at 1:08 AM GMT
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Subject: The new TLD's and small companies

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   Important Questions

Is there any way that the little guys will get a fair shake on the registration of the new domains? What is a fair way to release these tlds? If a com site is up and running, should the com site organization have first choice to register the new tlds with its name?

If a company has joesonlinepizza.com and a different company registers
a new tld such as  joesonlinepizza.shop, that would appear to create
confusion and diffusion of a developed site. Dot net and org represent a different scenario from .shop, .biz, etc. as .shop and .biz are part of the .com representation.

If the only way to register domains is the same as the current system, 95%+ of the online population will have little chance in registering the new tlds.

Is it possible to allow the public to participate equally in the registration of the new TLDS? Is there heavy lobbying to ICANN? Is it possible to have a public organization really be for the people or fall to the interest groups with deep pockets.
   
And is there anything that we the people can do to promote democracy for this powerful issue?
    

     
 


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