[governance] It's Time to Stop ICANN's Top-Level Domain (TLD)

[Meryem Marzouki]

Le 5 nov. 10 à 21:01, Ian Peter a écrit :

> Avri wrote
>
>>  It is all well and
>> good that you have a preference for maintaining the current  
>> restricted
>> incumbent market,
>
>
> Not at all, and IDNs are a case in point where expansion makes  
> sense for as
> long as domain names maintain usefulness - but any attachment of  
> exorbitant
> fees to IDNs to allow them to be established would be ridiculous.
>
> I'm simply pointing out, as others are, that endless expansion of  
> domain
> name suffixes does nothing to aid resource discovery or improve  
> internet
> governance.

But how and why do you infer, from the fact that fees are exorbitant,  
that expansion of domain names should be stopped (or limited), rather  
than that fees should be reduced to the strict minimal cost (not  
necessarily determined by ICANN) of new TLDs inclusion and management  
-- and then let a zillion TLDs bloom?

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