[governance] who owns the new gTLDs?

[Diego Rafael Canabarro]

"The application process is open and we do have developing country
applications to some extent."

That, per se, cannot be taken as a measure of fairness and equality in the
process, can it? Especially in the context of path dependent effects that
favor incumbents (North American) ICT firms. No surprise at all, but it
doesn't mean that these self-reinforcing trends shall not be object of
 policy-making, does it?

Regards
Diego

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>wrote:

> The application process is open and we do have developing country
> applications to some extent. Not to mention that there is often a
> preference for cctlds to factor in.
>
> The rush here has been to corner brand names as tlds, which are of
> doubtful value.  People will tend to go to ebay.com rather than
> paperclips.ebay if they want to buy paper clips.
>
> Th vast majority of these new gtlds will, like previous new gtlds (.museum
> and others) just fade out after a while, for all this noise.
>
> So I fail to see any Internet divide happening here
>
> --srs (iPad)
>
> On 05-Mar-2013, at 3:11, 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> <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 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.
> The same conclusions as Emily Taylor, the EURID speaker at WSIS+10.
>
>  Now, the only thing we can do is to change our way of speaking:
> Don't tell "the Internet". Tell "the American Internet".
> The other Internets will appear very soon with such behaviours...
>
>
> @+, cheers,
>
> --
> Dominique Lacroixhttp://reseaux.blog.lemonde.fr
>
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>
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