I see that all seventeen applications associated with CORE / Ken Stubbs made
it through:
biz
per
nom
biz (again)
ebiz
ecom
health
info
site
dot
spot
surf
info
(again)
site (again)
web
mus
post
The independent people
did seem to favour CORE for example:
http://www.icann.org/tlds/report/biz3.html
The
strengths of this application include ..(3) its involvement of CORE as a back-end
subcontractor.
AND
http://www.icann.org/tlds/report/health1.html
The
strengths of the application lie in ..and CORE’s registrar experience.
AND
http://www.icann.org/tlds/report/mus1.html
The
strengths of the application lie in ...the operator’s registrar experience.
Registry
Operator. CORE Internet Council of Registrars
AND
http://www.icann.org/tlds/report/post1.html
The
strengths of this application lie in ..the Operator’s registry/registrar experience
Registry
Operator. CORE Internet Council of Registrars ("CORE")
This is also
interesting:
http://www.icann.org/cgi-bin/mbx/rpgmessage.cgi?tldreport;3A0D8CAE00000130
Applicants
to become CORE registrars must submit a check for US$10,000 with their application,
which will be reviewed by the accounting firm of ARTHUR ANDERSEN.
If ARTHUR ANDERSEN
determines the applicant doesn’t meet the criteria, the deposit will be returned,
minus a processing fee not to exceed US$1,000."
So CORE members were selected
by Aruthur Anderson themselves, and then ICANN chose Arthur Anderson as the independent
selection comitee to decide the merits of the applications and which should go through
to the next stage.
Presumably this has absolutely nothing to do with Ken Stubbs.
http://www.gtld-mou.org/pab/mail-archive/00102.html
"My name is Ken Stubbs,
and I am the Chairman of the Executive Committee of CORE,"
What
a waste of everybody's time!