[governance] who owns the new gTLDs?

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Now this is a terrible comparison -- brie is French, the Internet the 
last time I looked is universal... Calm down, McTim :)

--c.a.

On 03/04/2013 10:00 PM, McTim wrote:
> Hi Pranesh,
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india.org> wrote:
>> McTim [2013-03-05 02:36]:
>>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Diego Rafael Canabarro
>>> <diegocanabarro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> "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?
>>>
>>> I would be happy to hear your suggestions on realistic policy
>>> proposals that would have changed these outcomes.
>>
>> I would be happy to hear your suggestions on this very same issue too,
>
>
> I don't think it is possible to have changed the outcome (marginally
> changed, yes, significantly changed, probably not).
>
>> McTim.  Or is there nothing whatsoever objectionable about North
>> American companies dominating the gTLD space?  C'est la vie (et le
>> fonctionnement du marché libre)?
>
>
> Are we talking back end providers (the 74% figure cited in CA's mail)
> or dominance by companies applying for newTLDs?
>
> As for backend providers, It's worth noting.  I'm not sure that I
> object to it.  There is nothing artificial in it I think.  More to the
> point, I don't think that ICANN could (or should try) to do anything
> about it.
>
> You might as well ask if I find it "objectionable" that France
> dominates in Brie production.
>
> For front-end registries, I think the answer is similar in that lots
> of domainers are Americans, and they have the "cyber real-estate"
> mentality, and are more willing to speculate with their money on new
> TLDs.
>
>
>> And whatever happened to the differential developing country gTLD
>> application rates that I heard about at one point (and seems to be
>> mentioned in the minutes of one ICANN meeting), but seems to have
>> disappeared again?
>
> JAS?  I don't think many folks used it, but Avri may know more, since
> she was on the JAS WG I think.
>

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