On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, William Allen Simpson wrote:
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Somewhat "off topic", the stated rationale for these new pirate domains is that ICANN is moving too slowly. That's silly.
The few TLDs that have been approved are not yet in operation. If it takes this much time for operational experience, then throwing more such domains in the mix isn't any "faster".
I'm not sure how adding pirate domains improves ICANN sunshine.
I think the idea is not to improve ICANN, but to give up on it entirely. "Well if they're not going to do it right, then we'll at least do it." It's a method that I myself have tried a couple times, with varying degrees of success. I think we're all at least a little disappointed with ICANN; new.net is just taking that disappointment to its logical extreme and ditching ICANN altogether. (Or as much as is feasible, anyway.)
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Another stated rationale is that ICANN UDRP is "flawed". I'm not sure how adding pirate domains improves the UDRP. The pirate has publically stated that it will follow the UDRP.
This, I'm concerned about. While ICANN has made a couple decisions that I don't agree with, at least we can hope that those were mistakes, or that ICANN has reasons I don't know about. New.net, though, is a for-profit company, and the dine between buying a service and bribing someone for that same service gets very thin and wavery. Matthew Devney