Re: [ga] sTLD Premium Names

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny Younger wrote:
> On, Tuesday, 19th December 2006, the Executive
> Committee of the Board of Directors of The Travel
> Partnership Corporation approved the following
> program, subject to a thirty (30) day public comment
> period and approval by the entire Board: 
>
> Premium Names 
> Certain premium domain names (e.g., fun.travel and
> convention.travel) will be reserved by Tralliance and
> may be sold at a premium price through an auction

And what, might one ask, has this to do with assuring internet stability?

This is way, way, way beyond anything that ICANN should ever be doing.

This is social, business, and economic regulation, pure and simple, without any 
ties whatsoever to the purposes for which ICANN was created: the assurance of 
technical stability of the upper layers of DNS.

This isn't mission creep; it's mission leap.

		--karl--