All of the posts saying "Don't add new gTLDs" or "only add one new gTLD" are being
written by spectulators and cybersquatters. These people own lots of "dot com" names
for sale and don't want to lose money. You can identify these people be reading things
such as:1) All existing domain name holders (ie: me) should get first pick if
new gTLDS are added.
2) I am opposed to adding new gTLD's because it would cause
confusion among my clients, the public, or the Net users. (read: stall the process
until I can sell my "dot com" domain names off)
3) Don't introduce new gTLDS until
trademark issues are sorted out. (read: stall the process until I can sell off my
"dot com" names)
If you read all the posts on this entire forum. There are
those who support the addition of new gTLDs (the general public) and those who don't
want new gTLDs to be added to the root (owners of existing "dot com" names). But,
regardless of the reasons they give to support their claim that new gTLDs should
not be added there is a common theme among all of them:
"Don't add new names, because
it is not in my best financial interest to do so yet. Let's wait awhile until it
serves my needs better"
The best one that I have seen is the one that appeals to
your sense of helping other people - 'instead of adding new gTLDs let's instead just
increase the use of ccTLDs to help poor people in third world countries improve their
lives'.
At best all this can be described as: FUD (fear,uncertainty,doubt)
These
people have no interest in what is best for the Net community as a whole, they are
just concerned about their precious investment that they have made in hoarding "dot
com" names to resell to businesses at a tidy profit. Do not buy into these arguments.
Ask yourself these questions while reading their posts:
1) Who will benefit from
what this person is suggesting?
2) Does this person own a domain reselling business?
(Or, is there a financial conflict of interest involved?)
3) Does this post use
FUD (fear,uncertainty,doubt) to try to make a point about why new domains shouldn't
be added?
4) Is this person looking out for the Net community or themselves?
I
think if you view these "anti-new-TLD" posts with a fresh perspective you will see
that a majority of the people who are against the idea are those who stand to lose
money if it happens.
This has been going on since 1994. The addition of new gTLDs
into the root names servers is technically an easy thing to do. For example, look
at the addition of the INT domain (.int). Some group talked about adding it. The
decision was made. The domain was added to the root servers. It was that easy! But,
the reason that .web, .shop, .arts and others haven't been added already is that
there are a bunch of people and businesses who stand to lose a LOT of money if this
happens.
So,what do they do? THEY STALL THE PROCESS ! It has been in a stalemate
for over 5 years now because some people, somewhere are paying a lot of money to
prevent this from happening. This is not a technical decision - it is a political
decision. So, it is about time that we stopped caring about the financial interests
of a select few and started thinking about the needs of the Internet users as a whole.
Add
new hundreds of new gTLDs now !