On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 05:04:19PM -0400, Jean-Fran?ois Mezei wrote:
Bill Nash wrote:
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.
Say I am a pastry chef, and I pay $40 per year for "pastry.com", I got it because I signed up early and now cherish my domain name. I am a small business.
But now, some rich guy can come in and bid for .pastry
I have no money to participate in this endeavour, and no intentions of running my own TLD. All I can do is voice an objection, but if the other guy is also involved in food, he is likely to convince ICANN's comittees that it is a legitimate request.
Then you end up with pastry.com being the original small business, and .pastry being anything else. This will lead to a lot of confusion.
I don't see that, and I don't see why a holder of pastry.com would have any valid reason at all to block a .pastry TLD registry -- let's remember; we're talking about registries here, not registrars. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin)