Re: [ga] ITU Resolution 102 -- four years later

[DPF <david@farrar.com>]

On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 11:32:42 -0400, "Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@tucows.com>
wrote:

>> You may understand that I fully share Elisabeth's feelings. But I am
>> interested in your justification of that $ 70.000 out of my family pocket.
>> What is it, if not an US tax? Loot?
>
>It is the cost of the domain name. Sheesh. Have they thrown out capitalism
>over in Europe? If you don't want to pay, then use the IP address. If you
>don't want to use an IP address, find a TLD that better suits your needs. It
>has never been a dotcom world and its certainly not a gTLD world.

The trouble is that ICANN is artificially restricting the supply of
TLDs thus preventing competition between monopoly gTLD registries.  If
ICANN opened up the gTLD space further than what you say would have
more validity.

AT present if you want a global website in an unmoderated gTLD your
only choice is Verisign or .info (which is hardly commercial).  

DPF
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