[governance] new gTLDs

[Dominique Lacroix]

Yes, Carlos, interesting points here:

- applicants : 3/4 are US companies, unless you believe that Verisign is 
a small swiss ltd cie, and so on.
- backoffice operators : 3/4 are a small bunch of US companies. Again 
Verisign : 250 TLDs.
Details coming soon in a next mail.

US are 10% of Internet users nowadays. And English language 25% of contents.
Where are the bugs ?

Best regards,

@+, Dominique Lacroix

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Le 17/08/12 22:35, Carlos A. Afonso a écrit :
> I assume McTim has already analyzed ownership relations of all domain
> name proponents? I would not dare to assume anything before doing this.
> In my view as far as I can see (who "owns", who operates etc), the big
> domain companies will keep most of the pie.
>
> frt rgds
>
> --c.a.
>
> On 08/17/2012 04:09 PM, McTim wrote:
>> What MM just said, plus:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:11 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>wrote:
>>
>>> I am completely lost as to what public interest does all this serve?
>>>
>>
>> Originally is was help to break the Monopoly (now held by Veri$ign) over
>> .com, ..net and .org (well, was .org, but is no longer).   Would you rather
>> have on US private corp as registry for 90%+ of domain names?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Isnt ICANN there to serve public interest! Why couldnt we stick to
>>> relatively meaningless three alphabet gtlds like .com, .org and such, and,
>>> being most important, making it incumbent upon the registries to sell
>>> second level domains in the open market on a non discriminatory basis??
>>>
>> registrars do this, no?  Having registries do it, would have meant giving
>> more power to Verisign, which i doubt is what you want.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Why has ICANN taken upon itself to further privatise anything and
>>> everything that conceivably can be privatised and perpetual rents extracted
>>> for the benefit of the most powerful, in the true spirit of the resplendent
>>> neoliberal march.
>>>
>>
>> Because you are not involved.
>>
>>



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