[ICANN-EU] Subject: About Competition .....Comments made by CORE---2 years ago-

["JIM FLEMING" <jfleming@anet.com>]

Subject:  About Competition .....Comments made by CORE---2 years ago-

ABOUT COMPETITION: ....You (the ICANN Board) extended a hand to the "smaller
operators" a few years ago
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In my opinion, it would be more fair to take the least qualified
legacy TLD operator (ccTLD, gTLD, etc.) and make that the
qualification for a new registry. Unfortunately, when one starts
with the assumption that ONE new registry will be opened to
compete with .COM and entice the trademark people into
buying another name, everyone worries about 20 million new
registrations day one. If many TLDs were added to the legacy
roots, this would not be a concern. The new TLDs could be
modeled after the least qualified TLD operator, which I assure
you is not very sophisticated. Some are run out of shacks on
10 year-old PCs running ancient versions of BIND, with little
or no customer support.


Jim Fleming
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