Re: [ga] gTLDs and the heretofore flawed ICANN paradigm

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
stakeholders/users,

Your remarks in part justify why more gTLD's are needed and also
that verbose contracts for same are not viable for a number of
already stated reasons.  Yet ICANN's method of introduction
and delay of new gTLD's has created a unrealistic scarcity
of options to .COM and .ORG especially and handed
one company a huge advantage in the market place in this
business space.  Now that Verisign has essentially been granted
in perpetuity .COM, and in  no way has restricted Verisign
from buying out its TLD registry competitors and as such
hightens the need for more competition so as to have a
healthy market place in this business space.

Danny Younger wrote:

> Re:  what exactly are the "naming needs not adequately
> met by
> existing names"?
>
> If we were forced to work within a strict and
> unmutable taxonomy, then congestion within a
> particular namespace could become a problem that
> creates a naming need.  When businesses found it
> difficult to obtain a "good" .com name, we needed to
> expand that space by accretion (adding other
> commercial namespaces such as .biz).  In time we may
> need to add .inc or .shop etc.
>
> I think that Milton is arguing that a strict taxonomy
> will not necessarily work, and that circumstances will
> arise often enough that require a deviation from a
> precise taxonomy so that it isn't worth it in the long
> run to pursue such a categorization scheme.
>
> That's why I tend to prefer a concept that is closer
> to the zoning laws that one sees in municipalities.
> Just as we can zone an area for pornographic
> businesses, and another area for retail businesses and
> yet another for wholesale businesses, and even zone
> for sectors (such as a garment district in a city), we
> should be able to think in terms of zones within a
> taxonomic structure.
>
> As such, a commercial zone could include several TLDs
> ranging from .boutique to .LLC while a non-commercial
> zone could include a non-profit sector (.npo) or
> charities (.charity) as well as the other entities
> that inhabit .org.
>
> --- sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Danny Younger wrote:
> >
> > > The taxonomic approach is not a real option. Over
> > 40
> > > million legacy registrations, more than half of
> > them
> > > in one TLD, make it impossible at this stage of
> > the
> > > DNS?s development to ?rationalize? the name space
> > by
> > > promulgating a classificatory TLD scheme. The name
> > > space can only evolve through accretion; i.e., by
> > the
> > > gradual addition of new TLDs that meet naming
> > needs
> > > not adequately met by existing names. Taxonomies
> > and
> > > organized naming structures can and do exist
> > within
> > > TLDs (as well as in portals, search engines,
> > private
> > > keyword spaces, and digital libraries). But the
> > idea
> > > of a global DNS taxonomy that divides the entire
> > > Internet up into neat little cubbyholes once and
> > for
> > > all is an impossibility.
> >
> > This requires clarification as it does not make any
> > sense to me.  If the
> > issue is that the "taxonomic approach is not a real
> > option" then what
> > exactly are the "naming needs not adequately met by
> > existing names"?
> >
> > Sotiris Sotiropoulos
> >
> >
> >
>
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Regards,

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