[governance] Can Icann really be necessary?

[Roland Perry]

In message <202946.52245.qm at web161001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>, at 06:03:31 
on Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Imran Ahmed Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com> writes
>My reply to your remarks is as follows:
>Imran

>>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).
>
>Yes, I also saying the same thing that the usage (sales of new domain 
>names) of these new TM/branded registries will be very limited, 
>subscription will be allowed to only concerning members of the group 
>mean limited domain names subscribed/registered each year.

Normally they'll only be used for "internal" purposes I agree. But some 
may also be distributed to the public.

Perhaps we'll see roland at mail.google as well as roland at googlemail.com?

>New gTLDs with general name script give a good return of investment mean less
>cost offered to public for domain name registration, if it is that is good and
>widely acceptable.

Many years ago I was responsible for choosing UKonline[1] as the name 
for the first true consumer ISP in the UK, which we did despite 
UKonline.com belonging to a random manufacturer called (if I remember 
correctly) United Kinetics. (Several years later the British Government 
stole the name for their citizens online project!)

If .UKonline had been available in 1995 I'm sure we'd have jumped at it, 
and used it for customer email addresses. But we would not have charged 
for a sub domain.

[1] Compared to America Online (AOL) and Europe Online (an online 
service, no relation to the current company, as far as I know).
-- 
Roland Perry
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