Re: [ga-roots] Community Roots or Red Herrings)

["NameCritic" <watch-dog@inreach.com>]

Simon, I may not always be the most agreeable person, but here you are 100%
right. Take all the names in all languages that might catagorize a type of
business or type of website and make them all tlds. It would be simple for
the user. Want a bicycle, go to index.bicycle and see who is listed. In a
search engine you can just type the tld and there you are! People who sell
bicycles! Wow!

For domain name speculators, while the gravy train wouldn't be over, only a
few savvy ones would continue. The price for domain names even in the
aftermarket would go way down to something a reasonable business would pay
for a domain name they want.

For TM holders their trademarks would be more protected than now even, BUT
how they are supposed to be protected! In the catagory they filed the TM in
not any use of the same word or words.

Someone will come tell me this is technically impossible. NOTHING is
technically impossible.

Chris McElroy aka NameCritic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Higgs" <simon@higgs.com>
To: <ga-roots@dnso.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 11:32 AM
Subject: RE: [ga-roots] Community Roots or Red Herrings)


> At 04:38 PM 5/12/01 +1000, you wrote:
>
>
> >At the moment ICANN and the USG are authoritive for a large part of the
> >Internet.  It is a co-operative effort with a lot of players involved.
>
> First misconception. With ICANN, there is no co-operation, there are only
> contracts. A major shift from the original way the Internet is used to
> functioning.
>
> >There were standard practices and some assumptions for any network
joining
> >with the Internet. If we encourage fracturing then it will not be just
the
> >Internet but a collection of alternative networks.  The Internet is based
> >around a single unique root zone. Encouraging rogue root zones is IMHO
not
> >the best way to tackle the perceived shortage of TLD's.
>
> Second misconception. There is no shortage of TLDs. There's an
artificially
> manufactured scarcity. Big difference. Root fracture is a natural
> consequence of artificial scarcity. The Internet routes around failure.
> Take away the artificial scarcity, put all the TLDs requested since 1995
> into the USG root, and the problem goes away.
>
> Easy, huh?
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Simon Higgs
>
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