Re: [icann-europe] Re: [ecdiscuss] Re: [icann-europe] European RootServer System

[Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, at 19:11 [=GMT+0200], Florian Weimer wrote:
> Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org> writes:
> > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, at 17:56 [=GMT+0200], Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org> writes:
> >> > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, at 13:56 [=GMT+0100], Steve Dyer wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> And let's not encourage those who try to profit from destabilising an 
> >> >> Internet that works pretty well at present.
> >> >
> >> > Who are they? I am curious.
> >> 
> >> New.net and its ISP partners (Tiscali, EarthLink, Prodigy, NetZero,
> >> Juno, Tutopia, but also Oleco and 3cnet).
> >
> > New.net, of which I am no fan, does not profit _from_
> > destabilising.
> 
> But they profit through destabilizing. ;-)

I am not sure this is true, but from a certain point of view. I am
still curious (and I hope Steve Dyer will reply), how they profit
_from_ d.

> > In fact they would make a lot more profit, if they could succeed in
> > getting their TLDs included in the ICANN root.
> 
> Well, I still hope that TLDs never become a commodity, and that ICANN
> will never add this many new TLDs. 

Why not? Why not have a thousand TLDs? Some free, some expensive, some
cheap, some limited to a certain type of registrants (like ICANN's
.museum or ORSC's .cam). Why not?

> If they do, New.net would become
> just another registrar.
> 
> It's not clear to me what's the aim of New.net.  Just to earn money
> with the current model?  Or force ICANN to add their TLDs?

They have issued some 'political' statements. Naturally, these can be
seen as mere marketing. I find them a bit too sophisticated to dismiss
them thus.


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