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I must admit after thouroughly researching IOD's application against Afilias' and
some of the others, IOD truly stands as a fair balance between the individual and
big-business. In addition, even though pre-registration seems unfair, it
is much better than the round robin queueing approach that Afilias wishes to institute.
It is questionable whether one could even obtain a domain name during the "start-up
period" under the Afilias approach. And I do agree that Afilias stands for
big business; their policy is centered around the trasferral of names on the mere
iperception/i of trademark violation, among other things. As a private citizen,
I simply wish to obtain 3-5 quality names for future business prospects. I
am not trying to register hundreds of names simply for resale. As a new
supporter of IOD, then, I feel that we should all be responsible when registering
.web names. Irresponsibility on our part could jeopardize IOD's reception of
the .web gTLD. I feel that most of us here simply want a few desirable names;
we are not all like Mr. Brittan, who is trying to buy up every piece of ".web real
estate." Continued activities like this will surely place IOD at a significant
disadvantage in the long-run.
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