Re: [council] gTLD registries' paper on new TLds

[Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Milton,
GNSO Council Members,

In continuing with "corporate memory", let me keep the ccTLD
record straight.

The pieces of memory I have from time new ccTLD were put live
indicates - no surprise - that the number of domain names created
by new ccTLDs were very slow in those years, and that it has
strictly nothing to do with today gTLDs.

The audatious ccTLDs, almost all not for profit, were foreseeing 
100 domain names recorded the first year, and perhaps 500 in 
two years.

I do not know much about initial business plans of 7 new gTLDs
from November 2000: .info, .biz, .museum, .aero, .pro, .coop, .name 
but I guess those were based on more than 100 domain names per annum.

Kind regards,
Elisabeth Porteneuve
ccTLD liaison to GNSO

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> From: "Milton Mueller" <Mueller@xxxxxxx>
> To: <Amadeu@xxxxxxxxxx>, <Jeff.Neuman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <council@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [council]  gTLD registries' paper on new TLds
> 
> >>> Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> >1990 11  47 
> >1991 22  69 
> >1992 17  86 
> >1993 23 109 
> >1994 22 131 
> >1995 29 160 
> >1996 31 191 
> >1997 47 238 
> 
> Gosh, I hope adding all those TLDs didn't harm the Internet's stability!
> I sure hope that New TLD Evaluation and Planning Task Force takes a long, 
> hard look at the effects of adding those country codes.
> 
> ;-)
> 
>