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Re: [ga] sedo proposal for one letter domains

  • To: Joop Teernstra <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, kidsearch <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: [ga] sedo proposal for one letter domains
  • From: Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:14:47 -0800 (PST)
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  • In-reply-to: <5.0.2.1.2.20060126174308.03072850@mail.terabytz.co.nz>
  • Sender: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Joop please rethink this position. Unless you also want to argue who owns the sky?
  If you buy a piece of land do you also buy the air above it? pure sillines. If we follow your logic no one has a right to use any domain names. So get off the internet you thief.
   
  Seriously, though, this proposal has merit. Why not use the one letter domains? I see no good reason not to. Why not do an online sale? I see no good reason not to. Why not get the highest price? I see no good reason not to. Why not let the proceeds benefit ICANN? I see no good reason not to.
   
  Now it can be argued we should not auction or seek the highest price but should equitably give them for use to deserving, loving, kind souls who would make right and proper use of them. Someone send the criteria for that. Next, it should be a lottery, -that is just lame as it is better to give for cash than dumb luck. Possibly we should let the proceeds benefit an orphanage in Tunis or a Christian charity -- well we can see the problems here. We could give the whole lot of them to a developing nation ccTLD admin. say dotVN. And insist proceeds go to shoeshine boys.
   
  No, this idea is good and if we just cut through the crapp and do it, funding will be swift. Although i would suggest that ICANN spend a bundle marketing and advertising it. It may spur a major interest which resellers and registrars could capitalize on to renew interest in their markets.
   
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Joop Teernstra <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  At 10:40 a.m. 26/01/2006, you wrote:
>http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060125005469&newsLang=en
>

Sedo (a company active in the secondary market for domain Names) assumes 
here that ICANN "owns" the single letters of the Latin alphabet under .com 
(and by implication under other TLD's as well).
Only an owner (or a secured creditor or the government) has a right to sell 
property by auction.

Does ICANN now "own" the restricted second levels as a result of it's 
restrictions?


-joop-


  


		
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