[ICANN-EU] Re: ICANN Revokes Domain Names - "Rough Consensus"?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Jim and all,

  Yes indeed this was quite controversial at the time.  And has yet
to have been dealt with or otherwise corrected to date.  It is also
very much contrary to this very ICANN boards statements that
such decisions should meet at least a "Rough Consensus".  I don't
believe that this one did and still does not.

JIM FLEMING wrote:

> @@@ http://www.adlawbyrequest.com/industry/ICANNRevoke.shtml
>
> ICANN Revokes Domain Names
>
> "According to the The New York Times New York Times, businesspeople
> who registered the names are unhappy with the decision. Mike Roberts,
> ICANN's president, said that the domain names should never have been
> registered in the first place. Roberts further explained that a domain name
> that ends in a dash is "a bad idea because it just generates consumer
> confusion.
> It doesn't have any utility in the user space."
>
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
>
> Isn't the real reason that names ending in dash-dot could be used
> as TLDs with some people's software and ICANN did not
> want to allow any prior use rights to be established for TLDs ?
>
> In other words, someone with WEB-.COM might be able to
> use that dash-dot to trigger software to look-up that address as if
> it was the .WEB TLD by tossing the -.COM, thus yielding a
> string ending in .WEB ?
>
> Who makes the decision that something is a "bad idea" and
> if software is the only thing that sees the names with the trailing
> -.COM, then how can consumers be confused ?
>
> Does ICANN control how DNS software works ?
> Does ICANN develop software ?
> Does ICANN have any patents ?
>
> What about the intellectual property rights of people that registered
> those names ?
> Does ICANN care about the intellectual property rights of domain owners ?
>
> Is the assumption that ALL domain names are visible to consumers ?
>
> Is there any other "valid" use for the DNS, other than web-sites, in ICANN's
> eyes ?
>
> Is there a record of all of the Registrations which were revoked ?
>
> Where is the open and transparent ICANN Board discussions on this ?
>
> Where is the communication with the various parties involved ?
>
> How long did it take between the discovery of the registrations and
> the removal from the .COM zone ?
>
> Why does ICANN move quickly when it wants to revoke names
> or determine when names "should never have been registered" and
> then move slowly in other cases ?
>
> Jim Fleming
> http://Register.WEB.com
>
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> http://www.unir.com/images/address.gif
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> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/tpipv6/start.asp

Regards,

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