Re: the business model, was what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens

2008-06-29 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 06:19:19PM -0400, Jean-François Mezei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 47 lines which said: > I think that IANA should have long ago become quite strict with > domain name registrations. .COM should have been only to companies > operating worldwide. Wow, ".fr", li

Re: the business model, was what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens

2008-06-28 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> bbc.co.uk is fine because when you access it, you are aware it is a site > designed for UK residents so when they tell you you can't access parts > of their web site, you understand. But they shouldn't have "bbc.com" for > that web site. No need to tell us we shouldn't do what we're not doing b

Re: the business model, was what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens

2008-06-28 Thread Jean-François Mezei
John Levine wrote: > I own iecc.com. A group of educators in Minnesota own iecc.org. A > speculator in the UK owns iecc.net. Which, if any, of us gets first > dibs on iecc.thisisgreatstuff? Well, that would depend on whatever policies the owner of "thisisgreatstuff" has. More importantly, who

Re: the business model, was what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens

2008-06-28 Thread Roland Perry
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes In any event, ICANN's sunrise rules work adequately well, and they're not likely to change. Sunrise rules differ for each tld, it's one of the things that differentiates them. In Paris this week there was a short talk aimed

RE: the business model, was what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens

2008-06-28 Thread John Levine
That's the phrase I was thinking of -- "sunrise period". All of you would get first dibs -- I don't have a good idea how it would actually be doled out or purchased. But at least you three would be first in the ring, before speculator xyz had a chance. But in my case, iecc.net already belongs

RE: the business model, was what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens

2008-06-28 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
al Message- From: John Levine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 2:38 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the business model, was what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens >One way to provide protection is too allow those who have the domain

Re: the business model, was what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens

2008-06-28 Thread John Levine
>One way to provide protection is too allow those who have the domain portion >of any domain.(com|net|org|...) to have first dibs for the domain of any new >gTLD. i.e. if nanog.org, nanog.com, nanog.net, etc. would have first dibs >on nanog.thisisgreatstuff. > >Or is that too simplistic and fraugh