Re: [ga] New TLD White Paper released

["L. Gallegos" <jandl@jandl.com>]

On 19 Mar 2003 at 17:34, Doug Mehus wrote:

> Dr. Mueller does NOT propose
> auctioning off existing second-level domain names. When he speaks about
> auctions, he means that if there are two companies vying for the same
> domain name *extension*, the two would go into an auction to see who would
> operate the *extension* (example: .web) Registry.
> 

That's right, Doug.  He propses ignoring the existence, once again, of 
exisiting TLD registries, such as .USA, .Z, .COM2, .ONLINE... and 
thousands of others.  He proposes auctioning off TLDs without 
consideration for anything else or anyone else's decade long effort to 
build them.  The result is that we'll have the same mess we had with .BIZ, 
only multiplied by hundreds - all over the world this time.  Not all 
registries are held in the US.  It would be a real abuse by DoC to auction 
off TLDS in use by others, but it would not surprise me one bit.

Leahl


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