Re: [dow3tf] TR: Industries/Companies to Survey Practices of Other OnlineService Providers

["Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/12/2004 9:23 AM GNSO SECRETARIAT noted that:


> I think it would be helpful to identify other international companies.

I think it would be helpful to identify local and regional companies 
that provide internet services (i.e. - C4 Communications 
(http://www.c4com.com/), a regional ISP that I selected at random from a 
list of thousands of other ISPs.) An exclusive focus on multinational 
enterprises may not best suit our data gathering purposes. More than 40% 
of internet access services are sold by companies outside of the top ten 
players. Contrast this with the fact that over 85% of gTLD domain 
registrants buy their service from a top ten provider...)

Perhaps some assistance from the ISP constituency would get us access to 
the organizations that represent these important constituents in order 
that we can involve them in our survey effort.

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                       -rwr








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