Re: [ICANN-EU] .EU

["Griffini Giorgio" <grunz@tin.it>]

Marc wrote:
>
> I cannot understand that this, basically pseudo-ccTLD, has anything to do
> with "global competition", as you state.
> 
> So maybe you, or some other(s) in favour of .eu can elaborate or explain?
> 

I think we should consider two point of view: 
The 'traditional' meaning of ccTLD would lead to think in having, under a 
specific ccTLD, well confined purpose of registering domain names related to 
activities to some extent related to the TLD country activities.
On the other side we all know that for many small 'island' TLD this is not 
more definitely true because they mostly looks like gTLD rather then ccTLD.
The potential '.eu' ccTLD falls in between and have some benefits like:
- It is a ccTLD which holds - by its nature - a gTLD audience and this will 
have the same relief effect as the new gTLDs
- It is out of new gTLDs battle and this will save ICANN of the burden and 
exposure for choosing some entity to give out a gTLD class TLD.
The 'hot potato' is now in hand of UE which will have to create an entity (or 
choose an existing one) for receiving such delegation.
- Its targeted area of influence is wide enough to be viewed as the 'european'  
version of '.com'  and this will, to some extent, make any complaint about 
US dominance a little bit more difficult to assert.

Now, I think we will see some sort of battle inside UE and maybe a good 
choice would be a shared registrar system with each national ccTLD as 
partecipants. It would be nice if a new SRS communication method would be 
developed on purpose as an 'open' standard (no fees) instead of having to 
use the NSI one. 

BTW, I do not personally think that merely 'extending' the name space is the 
solution to DNS current problems but I think that '.eu'  is anyway better than 
a poorly selected new gTLD.
And the process of selecting new gTLD seems it is going to be a very 
very delicate topic.....

Best regards
Giorgio Griffini