Re: [ga] New top-level internet addresses come with $100,000-plus price tag

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

John,

I don't see it that way.  Let me try to use an analogy.  There are a set of 
properties that are in a poorly-trafficked side of town.  Most folks can't 
easily find these properties as they are not listed in the maps (search 
engines) that most people will use.  They provide some local benefit to those 
that own the properties and to the limited set of neighbors that are aware of 
the property locations, but as they are not situated on the main thoroughfares, 
most will just pass them by without even realizing that they are there.

The owners of these properties can arrange to move these structures to the main 
highway by entering into a leasehold arrangement with the highway department 
(the same way that a McDonald's, for example, can occupy a prime rest stop 
location along an interstate thruway).  Of course, these property owners may 
have to compete with other property owners to obtain such a lease.

And yes, there are times when a major highway might pass through a minor 
property development and create a loss situation for a property owner as the 
highway builders exercise their eminent domain rights.  In such cases, there 
are victims, and often enough such victims are not compensated.  

Anyone that has watched the development plans for this highway has known that 
it has been many years in the making; certainly enough time for property owners 
to make their plans.  

Most would say:  you can't stop the march of progress.  Most would also agree 
that progress outweighs the needs of the few whose assets might be damaged.  
Such is life.  

Those that choose not to get out of the way of a steamroller will wind up being 
crushed -- that's just the way that it is.  If you seek to grow your 
properties, the consider entering into the process set up by the highway 
department.  You have just as much right as anyone else to bid on a lease (and 
ICANN leases are forever).  Put together a business plan and field a bid.  It's 
a better option than grousing over the current situation.

regards,
Danny

--- On Sat, 6/28/08, John Palmer <jpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: John Palmer <jpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [ga] New top-level internet addresses come with $100,000-plus 
> price tag
> To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008, 4:27 PM
> This is nothing but an attempt at wholesale theft of
> property from one group
> of people (small businesses) by an organization so that
> they can sell that stolen
> property to rich and powerful people. Most of the gTLDs
> that are popular
> are already owned and operated by companies, most of them
> small businesses
> with limited resources. You know how justice works in the
> country - You get
> justice if you can buy it, otherwise, you're out of
> luck. They are now proposing
> to do what they did with .BIZ back in 2000 on a wide scale
> basis.
> 
> Whats new? ICANN is all about stealing things it does not
> own and profiting
> off of it. We all know, for instance, that the UDRP is
> nothing but a scheme that allows rich
> and powerful interests to steal domains from poor people. 
> 
> ICANN, Dick Cheney, George Bush, the Bilderburgs,
> Hapsburgs, Vladimir
> Putin, Robert Mugabe - no difference between any of them.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dominik Filipp"
> <dominik.filipp@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 1:59 PM
> Subject: RE: [ga] New top-level internet addresses come
> with $100,000-plus price tag
> 
> 
> 
> Sotiris,
> 
> bright conclusions as usual, but I see one positive aspect
> on it, a
> decrease of Verisign's .COM dominance. Just imagine
> perfect URL
> addresses such as
> 
> http://microsoft
> http://ibm
> http://xerox
> 
> affordable for the rich though.
> 
> But all the rest in your post remains perfectly valid.
> 
> Dominik
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 5:03 PM
> To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ga] New top-level internet addresses come with
> $100,000-plus
> price tag
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> See article:
> http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4218629
> .ece
> 
> One last money grab by the looters at ICANN and their
> moocher cronies.
> The day of the truly international, standardized Internet
> is over. This
> move is a pretty transparent attempt to dominate any DNS
> system by a
> bunch of shortsighted and pigheaded individuals who have
> all the
> visionary capacity of a rotten potato. The real (and
> unstated) intent of
> this move is to preclude the advent of extra-ICANN DNS
> systems in any
> language on earth, such that the resulting (or continuing)
> US dominated
> addressing system will remain within the purview of
> American control. In
> effect, what ICANN is telling the world is that no
> country/nation has
> the right to create its own DNS as they will simply collide
> it into
> irrelevancy and make a handsome "profit" at the
> same time!
> 
> A sad day for Internet users worldwide.
> 
> Sotiris
> 
> P.S. I will be unsubscribing from this list as there is no
> longer any
> reason for me to follow the meaningless blabber hereon.
> Good luck to all
> of you (except to the looters and moochers, I hope your
> genitalia rot).