Re: [ICANN-EU] Re: Don't waste your endorsement

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

At 10:01 7/09/00 +0000, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
>* Marc Schneiders wrote:
>>On 6 Sep 2000, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
>>> * Marc Schneiders wrote:
>>> > Dozens in fact. But they all pay $6 to NSI for each domain.
>>> 
>>> This is a contract problem and not a problem of DNS.
>>
>>Correct. But this still leaves the fact, that we were talking about :-) 
>>There is no fair competition, but a de facto monopoly, maybe even a de
>>jure one, but I'm no lawyer.
>
>So a de jure solution has to be found. No requirement for new TLDs.
>
Dear Lutz,

For a non-lawyer, you put a lot of faith in a de jure solution. 
If there was any chance that this would work, it would have been tried
already. 
ICANN had the opportunity, but backed down on good advice and did a deal
with NSI.
Don't you mean political solution?

I hope you have not totally closed your mind on the more logical way to
bring in competition.  
The one that is already on its way.
The de jure solution lies with ICANN : the standard contracts between TLD
registries and their registrars and the Domain Name holders need to contain
clauses that protect the DN holders against monopoly abuse.
In other words: Industry regulation.
Now why do you think the current DNSO Names Council might want to keep the
DN holders out??

>>> I do not oppose the profits, I do oppose the creation of TLDs solely for
>>> profit.

That leaves you open for the "non-profit TLD" argument.

So-called non-profits, that will quickly turn into private fiefdoms with
all the monopoly power that lock-in brings.   
For a taste of this, look at how some ccTLD delegatees (ab)use their
monopoly power.

I agree with you that more TLD's will not end Registry monopoly power.

But that alone is unsufficient argument to close your ears for market
demand. You cannot go back to before 1995.

It is clear that a dozen new TLD's is neither going to immediately break
the power of the ".com people"  nor going to automatically lead to an
exponential explosion in the TLD space. 


>PS: I added some of my recent answers to
>    http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/icann.statments.html

Thanks. 
I wish all the candidates would do this.
But, as observed elsewhere, the closer a candidate gets to nomination (let
alone on the Board) the less responsive and public (s)he becomes.





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