Re: [ga] Can live without .asia
Dear George, this time I think you posted two oddities. Not usual, but Karl and Danny too. So let me tease you all :-) At 19:38 29/08/2006, George Kirikos wrote: Indeed, for a registry that purportedly targets the audience of internet users in Asia, does it make any sense at all that they chose a TLD string that is in the ENGLISH language???!!!??? Where did you pick that "asia" was an English string? like "euro"? or like ".cat"? In the event that the registry is a "failure", there should be a mechanism in the contract to permit ICANN to delete the TLD from the root in the future. There should be predefined numeric metrics as to what constitutes "success", e.g. 1 million+ domain names registered by the end of the term of the contract, with a certain percentage (at least 1%) of the global internet traffic going to domains in that TLD. It's typical ICANN "old school" thinking to not define success metrics before something is implemented, and then declare things a "glorious success" later, without reference to any benchmarks. I see no difference here between being stolen my domain name because George Kirikos' metrics are not fullfiled or because Verisign wants to charge me $ 100.000 a year. A TLD Manager is the trustee of the TLD registrants, not the registrants dependant on the TLD Manager. Except in ICANN's philosophy. Danny: Should this TLD be deemed a failure and retired, or should the contract be rebid with yet another operator given an opportunity to make a go of it?
Karl: If we're carving up the world along geographic or cultural lines (.cat, .asia), then I guess we ought to have .pacifica for the region composed of California (Baja and Alta), Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. That represents a chunk of world economic power that is up there in the top 4 or 5 and has at least as much cultural consistency as does Asia (whatever one uses for its boundaries.) as much cultural consistency as does Asia? I know there are some scholars and archeological searches in British Columbia ... Don't you think that .pacifica (or .pac) could also involve Chile, New-Zealand, Australia, Noumea, Hawaï, Philipina, Malaysia, Viet-Nam, Japan, China, Russia, Alska, Tahiti, Peru, Equator, Tuvalu, etc. etc. ? www.picisoc.org Take care. jfc
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