[governance] Cities and Internet Governance

[David Goldstein]

Some people make lots of money out of domain names, but there are many existing small registries that don't and "run on the smell of an oily rag".

For a list dedicated to international internet governance issues there is a strong focus on people making lots of money and big business.

Some people/organisations will propose establishing a community gTLD (city, region, cause) for a modest return. Some will want to make lots of money. There will be several differing models with differing aims.

It's rather obvious the domain name industry will grow significantly in size in coming years. More registrations, even without new TLDs, will mean this is so. And this takes into account declining prices, mostly, for registering domain names. Who would have thought otherwise?

There are around 1.5 billion people online now with a total world population of around 6.75 billion. The former is growing much faster than the latter. It's not rocket science that the domain name industry, and number of domain names registered, will grow dramtically.

David



----- Original Message ----
From: McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com>
To: JFC Morfin <jefsey at jefsey.com>
Cc: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Sent: Tuesday, 24 February, 2009 10:49:16 PM
Subject: Re: [governance] Cities and Internet Governance

On 2/24/09, JFC Morfin <jefsey at jefsey.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/24 McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com>:
>
> > As has been pointed out to me off list, the IG issue here is offensive
>  > and defensive registrations.  These namespaces are just more places
>  > where folk who want to protect their brands will have to spend time
>  > and money to register the domain they already have.  The people on
>  > this list advocating for these spaces have high ideals, but, in the
>  > end, domaining is a billion $/Euro industry.
>
>
> Who said so?

I saw this just this morning:

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/research-markets-web-domain-registration/story.aspx?guid={744AA1E1-9A90-4169-A850-7CE0A0961938}&dist=msr_1

Research and Markets: Web Domain Registration Markets 2009-2011

Last update: 7:03 a.m. EST Feb. 23, 2009
DUBLIN, Ireland, Feb 23, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Research and Markets
( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a0525d/map_research_forec)
has announced the addition of the "MAP Research Forecasts: Domain
Registration Markets 2009-2011" report to their offering.
The world's first report on the size, state and future of the global
domain registration industry. Research results show that by the end of
2008, the overall industry will have a market value of $3.6 billion
(all figures in $US), forecast to increase to $5.3 billion by 2011. ICANN ?
>
>  The only thing to do is to forget about the ICANN business model,
>  based upon others' names ransoning.

Hmmmm, lots of people making lots of money...I am sure they will be
happy to ditch this model for you!

> Managing a TLD is managing a zone.

Indeed

>  There millions of people managing a zone nowadays, and this is not a
>  big industry.

??? It's a HUGE industry!

>  Controlling TLDs is a very efficient way to control cultural
>  dissemination and empowerment, and locally limit e-commerce
>  competition. The Clinton's "shaping the world, shaping the mind"
>  policy reflects a well established and known US cultural reflex. The
>  problem is that the sleeping European atonism only answers the NA
>  dynamism. China has created its own coexisting DNS. Others might
>  follow.

I can't parse this, sorry.

>
>  For decades the Internet technology is blocked by the monolateralism
>  of an IETF vision which is limited to a decentralised governance
>  architecture under the legal US definition of the Internet.

Has the US legally defined the Internet?


The TCP/IP
>  technology was not designed with this in mind, and is much, much more
>  powerful. It takes a lot of legal/political efforts to make believe
>  that the world digital ecosystem virtual root is to be limited by the
>  unique formal root file server system.
>
>  The real issue with the ICANN's "Internet for the Rich" proposition is
>  that the next technological step is the Intersem (Internet Semantic
>  and Multilingual Network System) and that by essence the semantic
>  strata can only be distributed, by the people for the people along the
>  WSIS vision of a people's centered societal systemic. The difficulty
>  is to introduce it in a way that does not confuse the Internet strata.
>  It took more than 15 years to stabilise the introduction of the
>  Internet strata over the "Intertel" strata - and called for the
>  deregulation in the middle. Today, it will probably call for a
>  deicannization we might observe this year (JPA, IGF review, etc.).

ICANN will be stronger by ending the JPA at some point, it's not
"deicannization" at all.

Are the helicopters black where you are?

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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