[comments-admin] Re: Multiple TLD registrations coming home to roost

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

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On 03-May-2000 Michael Sondow wrote:
> Dean Robb wrote:
>>
>> While I agree that ICANN needs to address the issue; I lay the blame for
>> the problem squarely at the feet of NSI.
> 
> While it's true that NSI's "profit at any cost" attitude towards the
> Internet is the fundamental cause of the corruption of .ORG, ICANN
> is supposed, with all its clamor about safeguards and protections,
> to ascertain whether TLDs are being used for their purpose. After
> all, what's the point of creating new TLDs if none of them are going
> to be used properly?
> 
> Furthermore, the GAC, the DNSO, and the ICANN Board are making a lot
> of noise about re-allocating ccTLDs if their registries are not
> employing them properly, or not employing them in accord with their
> governments' wishes. Isn't there an old saying about cleaning your
> own house before complaining about your neighbor's? Everyone with a
> .ORG registration must feel defrauded when they read about
> registrations like that of bankname.org. I should think the first
> thing ICANN would do, regarding TLDs, is clean up the existing ones,
> if ICANN's intentions are at all what it says they are, rather than
> mere bullying and pandering to commercial interests.
> 

Michael,

Besides your fantasy, where do you get the impression that .org was EVER
intended for non-commercial use of non-profits only?  There is NOTHING in the
history of the internet or the RFC's to back up that illegitimate claim, except
your fantasy.

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William X. Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>
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