[governance] "Oversight"

[parminder]

Excuse my ignorance, but I am interested in exploring the relationship 
of the vertical integration - or of removal of cross ownership 
restrictions - decision of the last year, and the imminent private 
ownership of entire tld spaces, and along with it, the exclusive use of 
some generic words on the right side of the dot, for ones own business 
interests. Did the requirement to have non-owned registrars also mean 
that domains names were obligatorily to be sold in the open market on a 
non-discriminatory basis? Was any obligations to sell domain names in 
open market on non discriminatory basis, in any case, a part of registry 
and registrar agreements?

Sorry for asking these simple and basic questions, but I always took it 
for granted that any tld would be available for anyone on a non 
discriminatory basis, of course for a price. Perhaps, allocating 
exclusive tlds to respective trademark owners can be considered as a 
special case (though I have arguments against such a practice as well) 
but to allow generic words and names as exclusive tld spaces is quite 
un-understandable. What pulbic interest is it supposed to serve? What 
was behind this decision?

parminder

On Monday 18 June 2012 05:01 PM, William Drake wrote:
> Hi Andrea
>
> On Jun 18, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Andrea Glorioso wrote:
>
>    
>> Thanks Bill.
>>
>> I'm not sure why you are "mixing" the discussion on trademarks with
>> the one on competition/antitrust, as generally speaking they are two
>> separate issues. I provided the exchange of letters just as a
>> (hopefully useful) reference.
>>      
> Sure, thanks.  I just thought they both spoke to the same point about GAC advice, the relative autonomy of the board, and the benefits of a model in which the ultimate 'oversight' decision making authority is not necessarily vested in governments, which from time to time actually don't make optimal decisions.  Plus, I just really like the EC quotes in the trademark exchange ;-)
>
> See you tomorrow in parliament,
>
> BD
>    
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