Re: Tired of Waiting

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Noel and all,

Noel Chiappa wrote:

>     From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
>
>     Originally, and the fubar that IOD stepped into, IANA even had a TLD
>     registry set up and running. Chris even officially used the published
>     process. >poof< Suddenly there was no process and the check was returned.
>     Then the scum-bags at CORE decided that the WEB name was so neat that
>     they wanted it, since IOD obviously couldn't use it. Does IANA help
>     defend IOD? They do not.
>
> The fly in this particular complaint (which does have a smidgen of merit, but
> let's not get into the grubby details, they don't matter for this larger, and
> much more important point) is that:
>
> +++ New TLD's should not be new "Oklahoma Land Rushes" for entrepreneurs who
> +++ are out to make a quick buck.

  No one has said that they should be to my knowledge.  Is this just another
paranoiac personality talking here?

>
>
> In other words, it's *critical* that the *Registry* for a new TLD be operated
> as a public trust, not as someone's way to "make money fast".

  No one has disagreed with this.  And why can't a for-profit company
achieve this within some specific guidelines?

>
>
> (If you don't see why for-profit, but competing, Registries don't work, ask
> yourself how you'd feel once your snappy URL http://my_name.new_tld/foo/bar
> is embedded in 10,000 web pages world-wide, and your for-profit Registry then
> ups the rate to $1,000 per month....)

  This is a "Straw Man" argument that just doesn't necessarily hold water.  The
reverse
in a For-profit registry company may also occur if they are receiving a large
amount of registrations that exceeds their business projections.  This would
make it advisable to reduce the registration fee as to draw more registrations
in that particular TLD name space.

>
>
> >From this observation - that for-profit Registries are a bad idea - one can
> see why it was not wholly unreasonable that the original "published process"
> was withdrawn.
>
>         Noel

 regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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