[governance] Can Icann really be necessary?

[Roland Perry]

In message <527004.54096.qm at web161017.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>, at 04:34:14 
on Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Imran Ahmed Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com> writes

>Even after getting the new gTLD registry as the namespace of their 
>brands, who will allow others to register the second level domain name?
 >for example “anything.ibm”, “other-OS-is-better.microsoft

If it wished to, a registry could only issues second level domains 
"internally", just as they only issue third level names internally at 
the moment (as an outsider, you can't force IBM to issue you with an 
email address of imran.ibm.com, only organisations in the business of 
supplying Internet Services do that).

This is no different to several current tlds, where you need the right 
credentials to register, whether that's residency for some cctlds, or 
the nature of your organisation for tlds like .int, .museum and .coop
-- 
Roland Perry
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