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Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs)
- From: Marshall Eubanks
- Date: Fri Jun 27 14:34:22 2008
On Jun 27, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Bill Nash wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Scott Francis wrote:
perhaps somebody with more insight can explain the rationale to me
(DRC?) - is there a purpose served here aside from corporate/legal
interests?
It strikes me as fomenting another gold rush. The notion that
disputed TLDs go up for auction sounds like a request for a nice,
high quality money printing device. I may have skimmed over it, but
where does the money from these auctions go? At the risk of invoking
Ron Paul, this will turn TLDs into a fiat currency, and devalue the
rest of them. A small subset of people will profit, and everyone
else loses.
Off the top of my head, I can see some high dollar fist fights
breaking out for .sex, .porn, .games, .hotel, etc. It'll be like
the .alt tree on usenet for people with money. There may also be an
actual fist fight over TLDs like .irc, .leet, .goatse, and .krad.
Maybe not .krad.
The Newdom WG was frequently insane, reaching its peak in the hack for
which Eugene Kashpureff went to jail.
I for one would not want to go there again.
I agree with Scott, I'd rather see ICANN spend time on current
problems instead of making new ones.
+1
- billn
Marshall
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