Phil,You are correct in saying
that "real" people don't care. At least those who aren't interested in the internet
to begin with. Too many things going on in their lives to worry about TLDs. However,
that being said there are also some "real" people who do care about .Web and other
TLDs, i.e. .Shop, .Info, .Cash, etc. These are "real" people who have paid "real"
cash to get to this point in time after so many years of discussion about adding
new TLDs into the rootservers. Your ranting about .Web and how this is supposed to
be an open discussion is hypocritical to say the least! The last time I looked
- Your comments were under the GENERAL COMMENTS THREAD where "real" people are involved
in an open discussion! Seems most people here are mostly interested in .Web than
any other proposed TLD!
Should we accuse them of not being open?
Where is "average
Joe internet user"? Seems he isn't around the other TLD threads because they probably
don't really care about .per, .nom, .info, .cash, etc. Average Joe is welcome
here and is already here - you just don't recognize them! These folks are interested
in fairness, and most are concerned about issues of fair play. Will ICANN play it
fair when it comes to deciding who should get the .Web TLD? That remains to be seen.
In the meantime all of us are free to voice our opinions here - that is what it was
set up for in the first place.