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JimMoody |
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Mon, April 10, 2000 at 1:42 AM GMT (Sun, April 9, 2000 at 8:42 PM EST) |
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Ten Is Not Enough |
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There was a report a few
days ago ago that dotTV had purchased the profits of registering .tv domains from
the Government of Tuvalu for something on the order of $50M. This is a measure of
the oligopoly rents to be derived from the right to a gTLD (or, in the case of .tv,
a pseudo-gTLD). If ICANN does nothing else, it ought to reduce such oligopoly
rents. And only a drastic expansion will do that. There is no technical
reason to limit the number of new TLDs to single digits. There are already
hundreds of TLDs. Ten new ones represents an expansion of the systenm by a
few percent. Finally, there have been many proposals for new TLDs. How can
ICANN make a non-political judgement between them? J.
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