This message is very well put
and said.ICANN will miss the boat if they neglect to accept a .shop
The entire
process of releasing new Top Level Domain names was, if I read it correctly, to increase
competition and the ability for more people to have access to the Web. While
many of the proposed TLDs are good and will help in this endeavor, one will be sorely
missing if .shop is not included.
This TLD will not only increases the ability
for new e-commerce sites to appear, but it has a tremendous potential to help Internet
consumers find what they are looking for, more easily than ever.
I hope that the
ICANN Board of Directors is not doing that which I have read in other postings, i.e.,
only taking the recommendations of the Staff, or even worse, reversing the process
to have the Staff justify what they planned all along. I prefer to believe
in the integrity of the ICANN Board and in its ability to discern what is best for
the Internet and its users.