Re: [ga] .MOBI Auctions

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny Younger wrote:

> With bidders from 34 countries, the auction’s most
> desired names were hosting.mobi (sold for $101,000),
> bank.mobi ($51,501), download.mobi ($51,500),
> currency.mobi ($47,000) and insurance.mobi ($42,005)."
> In view of these results, one can likely expect most
> future new gTLDs to adopt a premium domains approach.
Only if ICANN keeps acting as a combination of interests that acts in 
restraint of trade.
Under ICANN marketplace will not have a chance to decide whether my plan 
for .ewe is viable: permanent, anonymous, registrations for one price 
(on the order of $25 to $100) with fee-for-service charges for things 
like name server updates.
But ICANN would never allow it because a) it is anonymous (ownership is 
represented using a digital certificate with crypto signatures) b) has 
no whois, c) does not use registrars, and d) pays no tithe to ICANN.
There is some light in ICANN that it will cease acting a suppressant to 
innovation and imagination in the domain name space, but it is only a 
dim glimmer.
                --karl--