ICANN, you know that the perfect choice is:
.web to IODesign ;
.info
to Afilias ;
.site to Neustar ;This is:
1) fair for IODesign;
2) it solves
the problem to choose from different applications;
3) it increases competition
on these main generic TLDs,
that are the most popular ones according
to surveys.
IODesign focused on one TLD only (.web)
and has mantained a .web
registry for 4 years,
since IANA started to consider to add new TLDs.
Everybody
knows that IODesign is the fair and right choice for .web .
Even Afilias and Neustar
know this: actually on their applications
they included alternative strings also.
About
IOD's .web registrations taken since 1996:
DNSO warning against "pre-registrations"
should not affect
IOD's registrations: actually IODesign's HISTORY
is UNIQUE,
SPECIAL and DIFFERENT from other applicants!
In 1996 IANA gave a permission to
take .web registrations
and to collect fees for this.
You may argue that ICANN's
process for creating new TLDs
is different from early IANA's attempts.
However,
this can't cancel IOD's history and merits in this
field! This is a particular
situation that should awarded
rather than penalized!
To be an *authorized*
pioneer can't be considered a fault!
IODesign acted in good faith since 1996.
Their
.web registrations were necessary to test the functionality
of the .web registry
and allowed IODesign to collect money to run
and maintain it and eventually to
file the application to
ICANN for .web (this is clearly stated on webtld.com :
fees
are non refundable and needed to support and mantain the registry).
I think that
IODesign and .web registrants are a single entity:
IODesign would not have survived
without support by so
many registrants. The registrations taken so far are real
contracts
and can't be wiped out. Remember that Network Solutions accepted
.com
pre-registrations in 1993 and then they become real domains.
Would it make sense
to ask for their cancellation at this time?!
After 4 years of patience and hard
work focused on .web,
IODesign should be rewarded by ICANN,
as well as it was
rewarded by so many Internet users
in the world, that consider .web as a product
by IOD.
Actually IOD's registry is the NATURAL
EXPRESSION of the Internet users'
WILL.
Please notice that it is not true that
"People support IOD because they
registered .web domains
and they want to get them".
This must be reversed:
"People
saw that IOD was the natural choice for .web
so they registered .web domains in
good faith".
IOD's .web registry is *ready* and it can
be put into the A-root
server soon, after a short blackout period
for protecting trademarks (you can
read this on IODesign's application).
No Sunrise Period is really needed.
ICANN,
you know that this is the perfect choice!
Thanks for listening.
My previous
posts:
ICANN: listen to this suggestion and be appreciated all over the world
www.icann.org/cgi-bin/mbx/rpgmessage.cgi?tldapps;39FDE53800000D1A
Trademarks
can be protected WITHOUT a Sunrise Period! (New TLDs are needed SOON)
www.icann.org/cgi-bin/mbx/rpgmessage.cgi?tldapps;3A030E6900001008
The
truth about .web
(short version)
www.icann.org/cgi-bin/mbx/rpgmessage.cgi?tldapps;39F4590800000923
(long
version)
www.icann.org/cgi-bin/mbx/rpgmessage.cgi?tldapps;39F457FC00000920
Regards
Fabrizio
Coppola
Italy