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)