[governance] "Oversight"

Mon Jun 18 16:05:09 EDT 2012

Parminder,

honestly, in respect of vertical integration between top-level domain registries and registrars vertical integration, "excuse my ignorance" is a bit of a stretch. Go study.

An expert and vividly interested community has worked together for what maybe exceeds hundreds of thousands of person-hours to answer questions like yours in a professional manner.

One shortcut: attend an ICANN meeting. The first day there is always a beginners session and during the week a lot of learning opportunities to get the whole thing, from basics to the present cutting-edge state of the art, if you are really interested.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty

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Enviado el: lunes, 18 de junio de 2012 12:19
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Asunto: Re: [governance] "Oversight"

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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