[governance] Massive group forms to kill off new gTLDs

[Norbert Bollow]

Louis Pouzin <pouzin at well.com> wrote:
> http://domainincite.com/massive-group-forms-to-kill-off-new-gtlds/
> http://www.ana.net/content/show/id/icann
[..]
> In an election year the business sector opinion cannot be easily
> discarded.

Still the overall influence of this factor cannot exceed the overall
power of the US government over the DNS root. In my view it's
impossible for anyone, even the US government, to turn back the clock
on the fact that we're going to have a significant expansion of the
set of TLDs including non-Ascii TLDs including the two-nonAscii-letter
TLDs desired by Bulgarians and Greeks. If ANA or anyone else succeeds
in influencing (directly or via the US governnemt) ICANN to try to
stop the planned expansion of the set of TLDs, or if ICANN chooses to
be bone-headed about non-Ascii ccTLDs that cannot really be denied to
the Bulgarians and Greeks, that'd simply be suicide on ICANN's part.
US actors would IMO be well advised not to underestimate the capability
of the EU to take effective action if that is necessary to protect
fundamental interests of these two EU member countries, nor the
capability of the many people who believe that additional TLDs are
needed. If ICANN behaves too much like a king who thinks that he can
simply say no, some kind of revolution will IMO surely result. But my
bet would be that ICANN isn't going to act so stupidly as to trigger
such events.

Greetings,
Norbert
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