Re[3]: [ga-roots] Re: ICANN Policy -- revised version

[Stefan Probst <stefan.probst@opticom.v-nam.net>]

At 21:33 16.06.01 -0700, William X. Walsh wrote:
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>Hello Stefan,
>
>Saturday, June 16, 2001, 6:11:34 PM, Stefan Probst wrote:
>
>
> > But Afilias didn't threat to start another root, if they don't get the
> > requested TLD.
> > ICANN was hesitating to give out that particular TLD, but now TUCOWS puts
> > the gun at ICANN's head (to use the recently mentioned image).
>
>Wrong.
>
>That is not what Tucows said.  Tucows said that if ICANN is going to
>develop a policy to grant deference to alt.root tld operators, then it
>will do so itself in self protection.

And what if New.net became stronger and many users would switch to 
New.net's root?
Would TUCOWS still stick to ICANN?

>And let's not be coy here.  If Tucows went the alt.root path (which
>they clearly do not want to do, but would feel compelled to do if
>ICANN develops some inane policy that it will grant deferences to
>these self styled TLD operators who do not know anything except how to
>ask someone else to enter some DNS configs for them)

I am deeply impressed by your intimate knowledge of the non-ICANN TLD 
operators. Especially about IOD, which is the one in question here.

>  it would be a
>major thing, more so than any other registrar really.
>
>Tucows/OpenSRS has the largest partner/reseller channel of any
>registrar.  It's entire business model is based around it.  Imagine
>the impact of several THOUSAND ISPs and domain registration sites
>pushing an alt.root TLD.  And that is what Tucows could do if it
>choose.

And it is, what New.net is already trying to do.

>If ICANN grants deferences to alt.root TLDs, then registrars will be
>forced to get into the alt.root game purely for self defense.

I was talking that TUCOWS chose exactly .web, and not another one.
IOD's .web is obviously not similar like all the other alt.roots.

>The bottom line is that Tucows did not threaten to get alt.root if
>it didn't get .web.  That is a complete misstatement of what happened.

If they don't get .web, because another "new" contender gets it, than you 
are right. If they don't get it, because IOD's claims, then they threat 
that they start their own root. That's the gun. This time not from a 
alt.root operator (when this image was used first here), but by somebody 
"inside" the ICANN process.

> > Don't tell me, that they chose .web just by chance....

Stefan


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