Re: [ga] Bizconst on new gTLDs.

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

I suspect the anti-trust bar will be delighted with this suggestion that
competition be rigorously barred from the namespace.

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Thomas Roessler wrote:

> http://forum.icann.org/gtld-plan-comments/general/pdf00000.pdf
> 
> The business constituency has posted, in response to the Lynn plan,
> a position paper on the introduction of new gTLDs.  In that position
> paper, the BC advocates a "logical names space" which should be
> established according to a set of principles.  All new gTLDs would,
> according to the paper, be sponsored/restricted.
> 
> The principles proposed are very high-level, and somewhat nebulous.
> Particularly irritating is the combination of principle 1
> (Differentiation, "A gTLD must be clearly differentiated from other
> gTLDs.") and 4 (Competition, "A gTLD must create value-added
> competition"), in combination with this note later in the text: "The
> structure does not imply a rapid expansion. The choice of one name
> will preclude future non-differentiated choices."
> 
> I may quite well be mis-reading this -- but wouldn't this proposal
> boil down to establishing a structure in which overlap between the
> "relevant publics" for different gTLDs would be minimized?  I.e.,
> wouldn't this proposal effectively reduce competition between gTLDs
> to the minimum achievable [given the constraint that some new gTLDs
> must be added]?
> 
> On a side note, I find the proposal's focus on sponsored/restricted
> gTLDs rather courageous, given that there is not a single
> sponsored/restricted gTLD which has proven to be reasonably
> successful.  On the other hand, the sheer number of registrations in
> ..info seems to indicate that the market indeed has demand for
> unrestricted/unsponsored gTLDs...
> 
> 

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