10-28-2004, 04:39 AM
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CaveBear Blog
Thoughts and Commentary by Karl Auerbach
http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/
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ICANN and New TLDs - The $2,000,000 Question
ICANN missed the deadline for creating a plan for new TLDs.
Instead ICANN issued an empty document that merely re-expressed what we already well know: that ICANN intends to continue to act as the reincarnation of a Soviet-era centralized planning bureau that, without any justification based on technical need, imposes its own judgment of what the domain name marketplace should be rather than allowing free competition and innovation.
But there is another matter that the empty document fails to address: the fate of the roughly $2,000,000 in fees paid by TLD applicants in year 2000. There are about forty applicants who paid $50,000 each and whose applications have not been rejected and are still pending.
ICANN should either repay that money or should process the applications. Otherwise it is simply expropriation, or worse.
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and this is also interesting:
Can TLDs Be Sold?
Friday October 08 2004, @08:05PM
http://www.icannwatch.org
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sforrest writes "The .coop sponsored top-level domain has been sold , including both the .coop domain name registrar business and the domain registry itself. Co-operative News reports that a company called OSG, or Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-op, has purchased .coop from Poptel Ltd, which in 2000 submitted a successful bid to ICANN (in association with the USA's National Cooperative Business Association), to create .coop as one of seven new top-level domains.
Who is OSG? According to their website , OSG is a co-operative business venture based in the UK that "has five trading divisions. Food (the largest), followed by motor, funeral, travel and property. We also have a business futures division which includes a new childcare service." The sale - while it impacts a TLD that has just 8,000 registered domain names - raises some serious questions for ICANN:
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more about the sale:
http://www.thenews.coop/details.php?id=517
OSG:
http://www.osg.coop/live/cme23.htm |
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