Re: [ga] price policy

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl and all,

Exactly right here Karl.

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> Veni Markovski wrote:
>
> > I'd say that it's not the same if someone buys 1 million domain names at
> > $ 1 each, or at $ 6 each. But in anycase - the bigger point is if ICANN
> > should regulate or not. I asked Karl similar question, but haven't heard
> > from him.
>
> Simple answer - and the same one that I've been saying since 1997 --- It
> is *not* ICANN's role to regulate any aspect of business, economic,
> social or legal policy except insofar as there is a direct, clear, and
> compelling technical necessity.
>
> In other words:
>
>    - Trademark protection is not part of ICANN's job.
>
>    - Regulation of unsolicited commercial email is not part of ICANN's job
>
>    - Evaluation of the business models of domain name registries and
> registrars (except perhaps for the legacy .com/.net/.edu/.org/) is not
> ICANN's job.
>
>    - Publication of Whois for the purposes of making the life of
> intellectual property attorneys easier is not ICANN's job.
>
> On the other hand ICANN's job is to guarantee to the community of
> internet users that the upper tier of DNS transform DNS queries into DNS
> responses with dispatch, with no prejudice for or against anyone,
> without data mining, and in accord with widely accepted written internet
> technical standards.
>
> And that is a job that ICANN is not doing.  That is why ICANN is like an
> e-Fema and DNS is like New Orleans in the balmy summer days of 2005
> before Katrina came over the horizon.
>
>                 --karl--

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