Re: [ga] ICANN Board postponing further sTLDs
At 02:20 04/11/03, Don Brown wrote: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Agreed. And if you believe there are revenues in bare names, try to get a VC believe that. Wake-up! you made a long way from the 60's, still a few steps ahead to understand where money really is. Try this: what does NSI do wrong to lose 80% of its potential sales? Go to their site and look! Again, there is no money in names, but in what people make or are made to make with them. I grew up in the 60's; the flower power era. However, I figured it out all by myself. Think about it. There are motives that don't match the way you think it should be . . . Yeap. You misread me. I said there is no money in the way ICANN is leading the nets. Because they focus on their own task as a registry and they want to have affiliates (registrars, resellers, etc.). They even never considered QA and user support. Look, if you want peole to make money with you, you do not take a product sold $ 50 by a single one and make it sold $ 10 by 100. This means that the new commers will get 0.2% of what the single one made.... Unless the single one keeps its internal rate of $ 6 and makes the new commers its own customers, forgetting about the end registrants. This way the fostered competition is not in selling cheaper to the users, but in buying more to itself. Real money is - and IMHO there is a plenty - in promoting new usages on the nets which will call for new names - IDNA was a good idea by i-DNs. But NSI and ICANN plaid it so poorly that it will be a net loss for long for many. Plenty of people should make money with the new usages: Registries will get some part of it. Forget about Registrars: they take on Registries share. Use Registrars as registrant consultants. You will not pay them, and they will get paid more by the registrants as an help to fight the Registry for quality. Tell me when last you saw "service quality" listed among ICANN priorities? Caring about consumers? They keep them @large. They plaid well the democracy ringmarole to make everyone forget about good service. What is too bad is that we could have money, service quality, development, new services, end user satisfaction, happy manufacturers with new products, etc. With just 2 cents of imagination and understanding about what a human network is and expect from an eletronic network : services and no spam. You know what they say: if bankers and lawyers known about the market they would not be lawyers and bankers, they would be rich. I explained they will make IPv6 a complex system calling for a complex registry system. They will be happy to sell that registry in a complex way. Wasting money and opportunities. When they could make a simple registry and promote IPv6 usages which would call for more addresses to sell. IMHO we are in agreement, Don. Don't invest in ICANN's affiliates. jfc Thanks,
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