Re: [icann-eu] Re: [ICANN-EU] ccTLDs to ask for BoD seats?

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 22:07 24/11/00 +0100, Marc Schneiders wrote:
[roberto]
>> Secondly, it will appear in a very clear way that the Internet will be 
>> managed via wild-west type of ruling. If they accept the blackmail from
the 
>> ccTLDs, 
>
>Blackmail? Do you pay invoices without a contract, for amounts not
>even negotiated but levied? I have never heard of anyone prepared to
>pay a tax (for that is what it is, if it isn't negotiated) to an
>authority that has no power to make people pay. 
>
Ironically, this is exactly what many ccTLD managers did to the pioneer
registrants that had already registered names in the ccTLD registry prior
to "new management" taking  over the delegation from a University volunteer
or some such. (in .nz there were the pre-july 1996 registrants)

Had they been more tactful about it, they would now have enjoyed more
support from their DN holders and indeed a joint position vis-a-vis ICANN
might be feasible.




--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--  
the Cyberspace Association and 
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
Elected representative.
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