Re: [ga] Responses by .biz/info/org Registry Operators are Unacceptable

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chuck and all,

  Easy to answer.  From a REAL ICANN membership and donations.

Gomes, Chuck wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Where do you think funding of the application process costs should come
> from if not from the applicant?
>
> Chuck Gomes
> VeriSign Information Services
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of kidsearch
> > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:11 AM
> > To: Karl Auerbach
> > Cc: George Kirikos; ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; org-tld-agreement@xxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ga] Responses by .biz/info/org Registry
> > Operators are Unacceptable
> >
> > Then we definitely agree. The only reason I suggest ICANN be
> > involved in
> > this one is that I don't believe a $50,000 registration fee should be
> > charged for someone wishing to create a public benefit TLD. I
> > wish ICANN to
> > waive this fee and make concessions for the creation of dot
> > NGO or NPO which
> > should be a restricted TLD and go to an operator that is a
> > public benefit
> > org.
> >
> > Not my org for those wondering if I have an agenda. I don't
> > wish to run it.
> > I just want there to be a legitimate nonprofit TLD and wish there was
> > representation for public benefit nonprofits within the ICANN
> > supporting
> > structure.
> >
> > Chris McElroy aka NameCritic
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "George Kirikos" <gkirikos@xxxxxxxxx>; <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> > <org-tld-agreement@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:11 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ga] Responses by .biz/info/org Registry Operators are
> > Unacceptable
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I think I must have failed to fully express what I wanted to say.
> > >
> > > It's my feeling that any "meaning" that is associated with
> > a TLD is the
> > > business of the users and operator of that TLD, not the
> > business of ICANN.
> > >
> > > So if you (.ewe?) or I (.eye?) want to start up a TLD and
> > say that it is
> > > for people who want to set up a mesh of brain wave transfer servers,
> > > then that's for us to say.
> > >
> > > But it's not ICANN's role to sit up there on its throne,
> > looking down
> > > onto the internet and say "Let there be a TLD named .dog
> > for websites
> > > with content for dyxlexics".
> > >
> > > ICANN's proper role is merely to inquire whether an
> > operator, potential
> > > or real, is adhering to widely accepted, published internet
> > *technical*
> > > standards.  And for that they merely need a simple one page
> > checklist,
> > > and a very small ($50?) application fee to cover costs (assuming a
> > > proper sized ICANN rather than the bloated money pit that
> > it has become.)
> > >
> > > --karl--
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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