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Re[2]: [ga] BBC article

  • To: chris@xxxxxx
  • Subject: Re[2]: [ga] BBC article
  • From: Karl Peters - TLDA <tlda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:16:47 -0400
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<p>Thanks, Chris,</p>
<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Your comments are well received with regard to 
the theft of .biz from a fully functional and profitable Atlantic Root&nbsp; 
Network (Leah Gallegos) by ICANN to sell to higher bidder in Australia. ICANN 
still seems to believe it is the only viable root system despite even other 
governments setting up their own quite successfully, not to mention the 
Inclusive Name-Space community with the ORSC, WorldRoot and the Cesidian Root 
just to name a few.</p>
<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;After years of resisting the opening of the 
ICANN root to new TLDs, probably to insure profitability to the friends of 
ICANN who run the paid for and thus "accepted" ones, it appears they are now 
trying to quickly get in front of the wave of public sentiment and auction off 
what they never owned and now have ever less and less legitimate claim to 
control over, so as to get a last cash infusion before the whole TLD matter is 
more completely out of their hands and ICANN becomes irrelevant. </p>
<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;If this is not the case, why an auction now and 
not several years ago? Why not accept .WEB with all Chris put into it? Why not 
go through the same process for awarding TLDs as before? (I didn't like them, 
but ICANN made more more that way than they will with an auction now!)</p>
<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;As for the theft of currently operating and RFC 
compliant TLDs such as with .biz,, all I can say is "Remember the ,BIZ!!!</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>-Karl E. Peters</p>

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