1. Webtld has been authorised through IANA to register .web in 1996. ICANN suceeded
the IANA and should respect this fact.2. Speculations have certainly increased
since 1996. The people who registered .web through image online design's webtld.com
are mainly private people, and many of them registered at a time, when it was still
easy to get good .com, .net or .org names, too. If these registrations will not be
activated not even 5% of the so called "good names" will be owned by any private
people after a new registration process, anymore.
3.a. The CORE people are pre-registring
.web, too. They have not been authorized by anybody to do so and they infringe the
.web trademark of image online design. If their activity will be supported in any
respect, ICANN looses its credibility concerning trademark issues in the internet.
b.
Furthermore, The CORE offers pre-rgistration-services for a lot of gtlds, not only
for .web. The "round-robin method" used by CORE and the immense costs for "premium-services"
are a clear tentative to make vast amounts of money through registring new domain-names.
These costs will increase the "value" of domain-names, because if you have to use
the premium-service of all the registrars of CORE, in order to be sure of getting
your domain-name, you will have to spend over 50'000$ instead of 35$ already for
the initial registration.
A good business for CORE and of course they are not
happy about comments like this one, but the CORE system would certainly be the worst
of all solutions possible.
Internic had earlier been attacked for charging too
much for their registration services. The Core people should try to remember this.
c.
Mr. Graham does not mention the fact, that the CORE-pre-registrars are also already
"booked" on the "good names", like: loans.web", "internet.web", "web.web", "domain.web",
"car.web", "computer.web". Those names are no longer to be pre-registered there,
either.
The only difference is, that in the CORE system not the first, but the
one who pays the highest price will get the domain name concerned.
All the other
hope and pay, but don't get anything.
A fair system?
Friedrich Kisters