At 11:46 AM 6/21/99 -0400, Joe Sims wrote:
>obviously, there are potential benefits to adding more TLDs, although the
>reason NSI doesn't oppose it has little to do with its charitable spirit
>and more to do with the fact that it will take a long time for .shop or
>.firm to be a true competitive alternative to .com.
Fair enough Joe, but in comparison to other huge anti-trust cases
the barier to entry to setting up competing businesses is very, very
low.
And I don't really see a way around this unless you seed a (new) registry
with 6 million clients, $50M woeth of infrastructure and a staff of around 250;
that's clearly not going to happen.
But what we do see happening is, when new tlds are made available, like .per
or .nu, and are run well, they do make some decent progress in spite of the
fact they may not be the most palattable names on the planet.
So, we're not asking to be made an equal to NSI. We're asking to be given a
chance, period.
Maybe you and Mike Roberts (cf. the www.pc-radio.com interview) are right
and there will be a huge problem with "another monopoly". But if you prevent
this from ever happening, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and you're
right by assertion, not empirical observation.
But to be prejudged, without being given a chance, I can't think of anything
less equitable.
In other words, Joe, what if your'e wrong ?
>Since this is the
>case, it would be much better for NSI's bottom line for it to remain the
>monopoly provider of .com names, and have to compete with some others
>trying to sell some other, less-effectively branded, domain, than it would
>be to have to give up its .com monopoly position (and the monopoly rents
>that come with it). We need some economic reality in this discussion;
>whatever else NSI's flaws, it understands where the money is. In any
>event, we have asked the DNSO to look at new gTLDs, which are an important
>subject, but a lower priority than opening up .com to competition.
As somebody that hasn't been involved in the DNS wars for vweey long
that might seem to be sufficient to you Joe, but the "new gTLD" committee
is who exactly ? All I know about it is Javeier (ex PAB rep to POC)
told Ambler the committee was "full" and his input wasn't needed.
Where's the balance in that ?
And what is it exactly this committee is supposed to find out exactly? We've
been doing this for FOUR YEARS. What is it you'd like to know?
Ask the questins here, on this list. The people most qualified to answer them
hang out here and would, I'm sure, be happy to listen and answer questions
in a public and open forum as opposed to a restricted group of selected
indivifuals meeting, once again, in secret.
Ignore all this as rhetor if you want, Joe, but do me the favour of
answering just one question - please.
Do you think the CORE model should apply to all new tlds, or do you think
both models should be allowed to run in parallel? I'd be sincerely interested
in your opinion, or if you even have an opinion on this.
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