[governance] who owns the new gTLDs?

[Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch]

Avri,

thanks for sharing this inofrmation and in particular the considerations of the group you are in for assessing the gTLD outreach program.

What is the reason people are sure the program failed? The small number of gTLD applications from developing countries and to the JAS support? 

If so it seems that the group is assuming that "failure of outreach" is the only explanation for that small number, while many others can also be at work (simultaneously as this is most likely a multifactor phenomenon.) Lack of interest in speculative domain-name business, small number of global brands and then within these small number of companies who think owning a brand gTLD is a good investment, lack of market (either from a "seat of the pants" estimation, from market research, or from experience and analysis with ccTLDs and existing gTLDs, a preference to invest capital in less uncertain businesses which are more immediately available... quite a bunch.) 

We should all remember Occam' (or Ockham's) razor, but also we should remember that it works best when held by the handle, not by the sharp side.

Alejandro Pisanty


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Desde: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] en nombre de Avri Doria [avri at acm.org]
Enviado el: lunes, 04 de marzo de 2013 20:42
Hasta: IGC
Asunto: Re: [governance] who owns the new gTLDs?

On 4 Mar 2013, at 20:33, Lee W McKnight wrote:

> JAS?  I don't think many folks used it, but Avri may know more, since
> she was on the JAS WG I think.


Yes, I was.   While we did come up with a program for supporting applicants from  developing economies it was too late and it got only a handful of applicants - we are still waiting on the results to see if any of them recieve aid in paying for their applications.

<http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/candidate-support>
<http://newgtlds.icann.org/applicants/candidate-support/applicant-support-fact-sheet-20feb12-en.pdf>
<http://newgtlds.icann.org/applicants/candidate-support/new-gtld-applicant-support-overview-20feb12-en.pdf>


I am currently chairing a group in ICANN's At-Large that is trying to pin down why outreach went so badly and how it can be remediated.

The group is in the first third of its work.  We are trying to get beyond some of the known reasons like poor outreach, hight cost and a late response to providing aid,  as it took forever to get things rolling for various reasons.

avri


Further Information:

Group: At-Large New gTLD Working Group  <https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/New+GTLDs>

Project:  Outreach evaluation & recommendation
<https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=38044058>

Review and remediation of poor results in both applications for new gTLDs and applications for support from developing economies.




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