Re: [ga] sTLD Premium Names

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl and all,

  Good point here.  ICANN should not be in the price
fixing business as a means to somehow manage any
TLD name space, nor should registries be seeking
similar ends and asking for ICANN's approval.

The Travel Partnership Corporation and .Travel
sTLD is dead no matter what marketing scheme
envisioned or deployed.  .Travel is simply not
viable or desired as a name space.  And really
never was.

  Reserving domain names in any TLD name space
smacks of protectionism and restraint of trade, would
seem to be in violation of several trade agreements
internationally, as well as has nothing what so ever
to do with internet stability.

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> 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--

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