Re: [ga] .et wildcarded

[JFC Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:11 20/11/2007, Prophet Partners Inc. wrote:
> Hi JFC,
> Billions of dollars have been collectively spent by businesses to 
> promote their current domain names. What makes you think that any 
> significant number of these businesses would abandon their past 
> efforts and switch to an unproven alternative?
I do not think they would. I do not think this would be any unproven 
altenative. It is just that it would permit a generalisation of the 
DNS (which does not need root servers, only a common real or virtual 
TLD forest compilation [actually lack of conflicts]). Everything we 
have today is just fine except scarcity organised by ICANN for the 
best of its pet registrar industry no one need. The naming industry 
would only switch from registars to registries, with the same 
probable divesity of size, and many more TLDs. The financial 
trade-off would be the cost of running your own TLD against using 
IDNs from another TLD. I would not expect the IDN value to change 
much. But I would expect more services to the registrant and a 
redefinition of the UDRP rules.
Instead of a competition on price by Registrars, we probably have a 
competition on quality and trust by Registries. ICANN would only 
become a TLDA equivalent and competitor.
jfc



> Sincerely,
> Ted
> Prophet Partners Inc.
> http://www.ProphetPartners.com
> http://www.Premium-Domain-Names.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "JFC Morfin" <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 6:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [ga] .et wildcarded
>
>
> > At 21:35 19/11/2007, Peter Dambier wrote:
> > > Sounds like ".local" has become more prominent than ".com".
> > > Root-servers report they receive 50 times as much traffic.
> > > Well, I run my own private, little rootserver.
> > > It is meant for internal use only but I do receive traffic
> > > allthough I am on a dynamic ip-address.
> > Unfortunately you are not under windows. The first one who develops 
> > an adequate private root server under windows will kill the domain 
> > name business which stubbornly does not want to undestand the way 
> > it will move. It will then be interesting.
> > jfc