[governance] who owns the new gTLDs?

[McTim]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Dominique Lacroix <dl at panamo.eu> wrote:
> Le 04/03/13 22:31, McTim a écrit :
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Dominique Lacroix <dl at panamo.eu> wrote:
>
> Dear Sala,
>
> Thanks Carlos for the mention. Yes, I distributed a paper leaflet to some
> friends in Paris, during the WSIS.
> The demonstration is clear.
> Two journal articles are going to be published. Please, just wait a few
> days.
> I asked the question about tax heavens to Fadi Chehadé in Paris, and to 3
> members of ICANN board/GNSO.
>
> Why would you have any reasonable expectation that ICANN would have
> anything to do with this issue?
>
> Absolutely right. ICANN has not anything to do with public interest.

ICANN has a very narrow remit.  Asking them to police where
corporations are housed is well out of scope.


>
>
> ICANN must have a fair, open and transparent application process for
> new TLDs.  They can't discriminate against folks who decide to
> incorporate in a specific location!!  Can you imagine the litigation
> if they did?
>
> Is anyone even surprised by these numbers?
>
> These numbers also demonstrate two failings of the TLDs program:
> - outreach,
> - developping countries.

Having lived in developing countries for nearly a decade, I can say
that folks there do run registrars and know that they can make money
registering domain names for their customers.

The business case for running a TLD registry is less clear to them
(and to me).  Would you risk 185k USD on the off chance you would win
the rights to sell registrations under a specific word?

I think that ICANN could have spent more time and money on outreach
and education around new TLDs, but I doubt that it would have
seriously boosted the number of folk from the developing world who
were willing to ante up to play in this particular poker game.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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