[governance] Can Icann really be necessary?

[Roland Perry]

In message <895009.91241.qm at web161004.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>, at 06:54:27 
on Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Imran Ahmed Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com> writes

>Yes you are right, but even now the same theme can be applied as 
>.online so your business on UK and its consumers may enjoy email or 
>web-portals with uk.online other may have us.online, pk.online,

.net was almost such a gtld, but much misunderstood (the idea was it 
named the network infrastructure, not the users). Many people ignored 
that.

>but this may also have other alternate usage as well,
>me.online, ibm.online, kids.online, jobs.online, policies.online or 
>music.online

That's yet another category of new TLD, where a generic word (like 
"online", or even a city like .paris) can be used to form a multitude of 
second level domains.

 >This is because you have came out of circle of (limitation), by leaving 
 >the trade-name aside.

It's different from a trademark or marketing/vanity domain such as 
.pepsi, and what's important to realise that with all this diversity of 
purpose, one business plan does not fit all.

Thanks

Imran Ahmed Shah

________________________________
From: Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com>
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Sent: Mon, 27 June, 2011 18:42:53
Subject: Re: [governance] Can Icann really be necessary?

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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