Re: IOD to ICANN: Whatever You Say (as long as we're in) (Score: 0)
by Anonymous
on Friday, July 13 @ 00:01:00 MDT
Doesn't sound like a situation that is
anywhere near being within the spirit of opening competition now does it? Such
an outrageous barrier to entry is anti-competitive and only serves to prove that
ICANN violates the "public trust" as Mr Lynn likes to call it.
You can add to
this little deceptive maneuver the fact that it was slipped in after the fact, like
in after everyone ponies up a $50,000 lottery fee,
which in the case of Afilias
was $50,000 split between their 19 members and of those we find most of the largest
established players in the currently in the market.
What a set up, ICANN hands
out 7 new tlds only 2 of which would be considered most likely to offer the most
revenue, and of course who get's em?
The big established players.
That way
whatever threat the new tlds might pose is really a mute point because the big players
well, have no downside at all, Now do they?
This is ICANN's warped view of competition
and as far as "proof of concept" is concerned and devoid of the nonsense about crashing
the net.
What the hell are they trying to prove?
Nothing.
Can anyone show
me where to find the document that spells out exactly what concepts need to be proven
so we all can follow right along and determine whether things are on the up and up.
That's right it's all a mystery and the reason it is simple, ICANN gets to make
it up as they please, when they please, and then ram it down our throats and call
it "consensus"
For that matter, where can one find the pre-set criteria that determined
who was or wasn't a worthy applicant in the new tld process?
That's right you
can't find it.
If ICANN were an honest and professional organization, then predetermined
criteria would have been made available so one would know if they qualified or not,
and if ICANN knew without a shadow of a doubt that they would pick so few tlds, (which
by the way they halfway got right in explaining beforehand but it was still purposely
ambiguous like the whole process in general) then they had no business approaching
the issue of an application fee as they did. They certainly didn't discourage applications
did they, more like they took every moment to mention the all important $50,000.
Oh and did I mention that Ken Stubbs, then Chairman of the Names Council of the
Domain Name Supporting Organization of ICANN was also on the Board of Afilias.
Yep,
that's right the same Afilias that was granted .Info
ICANN and the word public
trust being used together is an oxymoron.
Morons! yeah that about sums it up.
What a disgrace.