[governance] Help create the .nyc Internet space for New York and New Yorkers

[Dirk Krischenowski | dotBERLIN]

Sylvia,

what I understand about the bottom-up principles at ICANN is that there has
never been a discussion where a TLD fits, since ICANN never proposed TLDs
itself. TLDs emerge from the Internet community and other community
organisations.

Your opinion of a pleasant small number of TLDs is a very single one. In Oct
2007 the German Internet Association made a trustable and reprentative study
on cityTLDs among 1,814 German Internet users. The result was that an
overwhelming majority of Internet users think that cityTLDs would give them
much better orientation on the Internet and in the city. Only 7% find them
confusing.

Coming back to my first paragraph, if there's a community which can
demonstrate that a TLD would have added value at least for them, why should
ICANN not approve such a TLD. I personally find most of the ccTLDs and some
gTLDs more or less useless for me, but if they are of any usefullness to
others, why should they not been there?

Dirk 



-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Sylvia Caras [mailto:sylvia.caras at gmail.com] 
Gesendet: Samstag, 1. März 2008 23:37
An: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Betreff: Re: [governance] Help create the .nyc Internet space for New York
and New Yorkers

For me, a central part of the top level domain conversation is how
many might there be.  If there is to be a limit, .org, .com, .<CC>,
... then there's a discussion to have about where cities and which
cities fit.  If the number is to be very large, it's a different
discussion, and I guess up to the lobbyist and purchaser.

I find the current small number of top domains useful when I access a
web site so that I have a bit of sense of where I am, who is the
sponsor, ...  Is that useful to others?

How do many or few top level domains serve the individual user?

Sylvia
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