We are surprised by the vast reaction to our statement
as well
as about the fact that 90% of our arguments were accepted even by the
fiercest enimies of Image Online Design's application.As to the above comments,
we have prepared the following answers:
Comment 1:
>>NSI, the registrar, currently
charges $29 on top of the registry
fee (for a total registration fee of $35).
Other registrars charge as
little as $10 per domain (meaning they're only charging
$4 on top of
the registry fee)... Don't want to pay $35 for a name? Don't
register
with NSI. Already registered a name with NSI? You can easily
transfer it to another
registrar.<<
Answer:
We still get NSIs renewal forms, even though we transferred
our
domain names to bulkregister.com. Therefore it seems to be inevital
to
pay 35$ for renewing a domain name.
NSI even ignored the fact that through the
transfer to
bulkregister.com we had received an additional year. We were simply
charged
twice. We may well be mistaken, but this process seems to be
everything but fair.
Comment
2:
>>They have 19 member companies of various in size, located in
different
regions around the world. It doesn't get more diverse than
that.<<
Answer:
We
are sorry, if you were having problems in understanding our
statement exactly:
Afilias group will harm ICANNs interest towards
introducing more diversity, because
one worldwide active company is
not equal to many companies active worldwide.
Otherwise
Microsoft couldn't be challenged either - they are
represented worldwide, too.
Hopefully
ICANN is not about to create a worldwide monopole.
Comment 3:
>>It should be
noted that Mr. Kisters holds the pre-registration for
business.web through IOD
and thus has a great vested interest in the
IOD application.<<
Answer:
Funny
enough this argument is repeated over and over by supporters of
Afilias, even
though it has never been a secret.
Funny enough the people using this argument
resemble each other.
ICANN should definitely request full authentification.
Friedrich
Kisters
CEO
Human Bios GmbH
Switzerland