I believe that the time is right for a personal name registry, however I do not believe
that this proposal addresses a serious issue which is that of inclusively - it cannot
offer EVERY applicant a memorable personal address.How will the registry offer
a memorable address to multiple people with the same name? There are over 10,000
people in just the UK with the name 'John Smith', how many of them could have a .PID
address.
Clearly, 'John Smith' is a worst case name, but in the UK there are over
100 people sharing even the 40,000th most popular full name. Since the US shares
a similar nameset to the UK I would guess that even with the introduction of middle
initials and forenames there will not be enough names to go around.
Whilst nicknames
can be used to increase the number of available domain, these will only really be
attractive to young people. Those over 30, or those who want to use their personal
domain in their professional lives are unlikely to want to use nicknames.
I believe
that this is a key issue because if a personal name registry can only offer an attractive
domain name to the first handful of individuals with each name then
a) it is not
a global naming resource open to all
b) there will be a fast 'land grab' when
the registry is opened up because there will demonstrably only be a restricted number
of attractive domain names
Could DADA please explain how it proposes to address
this.
Thank you