Question to Applicants. How many of you had seen the following
ICANN statements
prior to sending in your application? (respond
to dansokol@woz.org)"Report
(Part One) of Working Group C (stating that "most
[Working Group C] members felt
than an initial commitment to
many more that 6-10 [new TLDs] would not be operationally
sound.")."
"Cf. Report (Part One) of Working Group C (recommending that
"ICANN
should begin the deployment of new gTLDs with an
initial rollout of six to ten
new gTLDs, followed by an evaluation
period.")."
This information does not
appear in any of the gTLD application
documents. It definitely was NOT stated
as a policy until today.
(Stated GOALS are stated POLICY!)
Over 140 requests
were made for new gTLD's. Each of the 44
applicants spent over $100,000 ($50K
to ICANN, and at least
$50K on attorneys and consultants) to file their applications.
There may be a reasonable case for deliberate fraud on the part
of ICANN.
I would like to discuss this with the other applicants -
offline.
Dan Sokol
(dansokol@woz.org)