RE: [registrars] Please Consider the Following

["Michael D. Palage" <michael@palage.com>]

Glad to see you still around Ivan. I believe if my memory serves me correct
you used the example of one of the Sub-Saharan Africa ccTLD registries.

I will put your nightmare to rest, I just unsubscribed you to the list,
please see below:

<ivan@netnames.com> has unsubscribed from registrars.
No action is required on your part.

You were an old timer, eight on the list, ahead of even Ester Dyson.

Cheers.

Mike



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivan Pope [mailto:ivan@powerdns.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 3:48 PM
> To: Antony Van Couvering; Larry Erlich; michael@palage.com
> Cc: Registrars List; Dan Halloran
> Subject: Re: [registrars] Please Consider the Following
>
>
> Strangely, I'm still here, though I haven't seen my name on the
> lists for a
> long time! (I never could work out how to unsubscribe, and this
> list follows
> me like a nightmare ghost).
> I think at the time (Berlin), my point was that many companies
> had been set
> up and had been registering domain names for years without having to be
> 'accredited' by anyone. To suddenly impose such a requirement with a hefty
> fee, seemed against the rules of business.
> Or something like that!
> Cheers,
> Ivan
>
> >> >
> >> > Now before answering please consider the following. In
> >> Berlin, at the
> >> > constituency's first meeting, there was a motion put forth
> >> by NSI, before
> >> > they became part of the ICANN family, that the constituency
> >> be open to
> >> > non-ICANN accredited registrars. Ivan Pope was also a
> >> strong proponent of
> >> > this motion.
> >>
> >> Ivan is still with Netnames.com?
> >> They are currently not ICANN accredited, correct?
> >> So it makes sense that he would be in favor of that.
> >> (Please correct me if I am wrong about their current
> >> status or Ivan's affiliation.)
> >>
> >
> > NetNames was bought by NetBenefit, which is ICANN-accredited.  I don't
> > know what Ivan said at that meeting (I didn't hear him say anything),
> > but I certainly stood up and gave Mike Palage some grief about the
> > decision, at some length.
> >
> > Many ccTLDs have perfectly good accreditation processes, which are not
> > ludicrously expensive, and where smaller registrars are encouraged,
> > though they may only do ten or twenty registrations a year (law firms,
> > accountants, etc.).  The UK is the obvious example.  That's good for
> > everyone, I should think.  Many also have cabal-like structures in which
> > high fees and/or silly technical requirements are imposed (Germany).
> > ICANN is somewhere in between, with most of the nonsense having been
> > mandated by NSI.  That could change, especially if the constituency
> > bothered to ask.
> >
> > Antony
>