RE: [ga] cenam fortunae

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

|> From: William X Walsh [mailto:william@userfriendly.com]
|> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 10:30 PM
|> 
|> Monday, Monday, October 08, 2001, 11:25:48 PM, Sotiris 
|> Sotiropoulos wrote:
|> 
|> > There is a veritable orgiastic feeding frenzy on .info going 
|> > on!  I am amazed at some of the things that have been 
|> > registered.  What a cash cow this is turning out to be.  In 
|> > a couple weeks its going to be Neulevel and Melbourne
|> > IT.
|> 
|> > All this money... and no conferred rights OR say in the 
|> > policy process.  WHAT IS A DOMAIN NAME?
|> 
|> Yeah, you know, customers to restaurants and shoe stores should have
|> say in the policies of those businesses too, in proportion with the
|> amount of merchandise they purchase.

Actually, they do. It's called marketing demographics. Just where do you
think all that demographic data comes from and what it's purpose is? It's a
company's best effort to find out what consumers really want. It This may be
a lot more indirect than many have in mind, but most large chains are
absolutely ruled by demographics data. McDonald's restaurants will not place
a store without a favorable ruling regarding the placement. However, the
systems being put into place don't give the consumer a meaningful choice and
there is no way to disolve a bad registry. But that doesn't matter because
ICANN set much of te policies via contract, which no one has a say in, and
consumers don't have many other places to go from there either.

Sorry to mix irony and sarcasm here, you figure out which is which, if any,
there will be a quiz.
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