It appears that Vittorio Bertola <vittorio.bert...@open-xchange.com> said: >1) Why should these people get for free something which everybody else is >required to pay $200'000 for?
Remember that $200K is just the starting point. Google paid $25M for .APP, GMO paid $41M for .SHOP and Verisign paid $135M for .WEB. In my experience, the people doing namespace experiments don't just want a name to to use. They want a "good" name like .PET. If we came up with a process to reserve random top level names like .lxaokwzyhedw or .nifacsyzudxt, I doubt we'd get much pushback from the ICANN community, but I also don't think any of the experiments would use them. It has become egregiously clear that memorable top level names are worth a lot of money and I see no basis for the IETF to give them away to anyone. While I don't think .ALT is valuable (nobody bid for it in any of the rounds to date) I also don't think anyone will use it because it is not "good" enough. R's, John _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
