All this brouhaha about our .org domains being taken
away from
us is based on a brief sentence in a summary of the proposal.
Other
people posting here have indicated that members of ICANN,
in private communications,
have said that they don't intend
to revoke .org domains registered by individuals.
Of course I
can't verify that this is the case. Whether it is or not, it's
not
the real point.The real point, I think, is that by arbitrarily restricting
the
set of TLDs, they're creating an artificial scarcity.
Companies that wanted to
create and administer new TLDs had
to pay a on-refundable $50,000 fee, and only
a few of the
applications were approved. This is ridiculous. What
exactly
is the argument against allowing the creation of dozens or
hundreds
of new TLDs, other than to make sure that domains
remains scarce and expensive?
The .com TLD will probably
always be prime real estate, but what's wrong with
letting
IBM have .ibm, Sun have .sun, and John Doe have .johndoe?
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