Re: [ga] Karl's comments at the 2003 Senate hearings on allocation systems

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

Well for one, we INEGroup, and many of our members that are representatives
at-large for their respective companies and organizations are demanding
more, new gTLD's.

Further, from what I am reading,.most of the asian stakeholders/user
community are also demanding more new gTLD's and iDN's.

Further still many if not most business savvy US business folks are
demanding and have been demanding more new gTLD's and iDN's.

Where have you been Sotiris?  Hiding perhaps?

sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> <snip>
> > ICANN's glacial, and extremely expensive, processes
> > have not only failed to meet even the smallest portion
> > of the demand for new TLDs,
>
> How does one measure the "demand for new TLDs"?  Who is demanding the new
> TLDs?  Is the average internet user demanding new TLDs or is it a
> relatively small group of people who have some personal stake/interest in
> mind?  Frankly, the last thing I hear from my clients is that there should
> be more TLDs in the namespace, indeed many of them are confused by the
> existing TLDs and their function(s).  Further, when they are disappointed
> in finding their first choice in a .com domain available for registration,
> they usually (though disappointedly) settle for it in the ccTLD if it's
> available; but every one of my clients prefers a .com domain before any
> other.  Indeed, most usually try permutations of their company name to get
> something in the .com TLD they can live with RATHER than going with a .biz
> or ccTLD registration that may better fit their brand/naming
> requirement(s).
>
> So, once more, how do we guage demand for, and who is demanding new gTLDs?
>
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos

Regards,

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