[ga] Circleid - Reaction to New Top Level Domains

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  All former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

  The following was my response to:
http://www.circleid.com/article/831_0_1_0_C/

The decision of adding .mobi and .jobs
as sTLD's (Sponsored TLD's) is a good one
as far as it goes but to add a additional
registration fee that goes to ICANN and
that neither of these sTLD's actually have
demonstrated sponsorship is where the idea
and the reality becomes at least murky.

 In my and our members opinion the idea
of .mobi ever being a well received
sTLD is very questionable at best as it
does not well denote what it is supposed
to represent for mobil users/stakeholders.

  Like ICANN's decision regarding .name and
.museum the new two accepted sTLD's are
facing a very hard and long uphill challenge
as they are not identifiable or useful sTLD's
that have good marketing value, with the
possible exception of .jobs...

  This TLD selection process that ICANN
and the GNSO in particular, shows clearly
that those making such decisions have a
weak sense of good business acumen..

Regards,

--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
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