Re: [ga] The Real World

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 09:58 a.m. 23/05/2002 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
>On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:25:32PM +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote:
>
> > A small but important part of the users, sure.
>
>Sorry, that is utter nonsense.
>
>*Most* domain names are registered for business purposes.  (Old
>estimates from NSI were on the order of 70% of registrations in
>.com/net/org combined.  These estimates are necessarily rough, but even
>a casual examination supports it.) If you count domains registered by
>speculators as a business use, the proportion would be even higher.  If
>you throw in all other organizational use, the porportion gets even
>greater.  Domains registered by individuals for purposes other than
>business are a *very* tiny minority of the domains registered, and in
>this regard the GA is completely non-representative.
>
>*Any* representation scheme that gave equal weight to the various users
>of the domain name system would end up with business getting an
>overwhelming majority of the votes.

What Marc Schneiders wrote is far from "utter nonsense".

*Many* Domain Names are registered by Individuals, for business purposes or 
for other  purposes.
If you want to add speculative registrations to the sample, again you will 
find many of these registered by Individuals.
Organizational registrations too, expecially new on-line organizations, are 
initiated  by Individuals and joined by Individuals.

Declaring Individual Domains a "very tiny minority" by subtracting their 
business or organizational interest is a cheap debating trick.
Individuals  have the right to determine for themselves if they want to be 
part of a Business, Non Commercial or Individual Domain Registrant 
constituency.
Only then  small and big business interests will get their respective fair 
weighting.




--Joop

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