[comments-gtlds] New TLD's

[Jack Landrum <jlandrum@consultant.com>]

Hi all,

As a consultant that assists start-up dotcom companies, I will tell you that
every client of our firm is against the introduction of new TLD's. All of
our clients have invested tremendous amount of money and time into their
start-up company and in the marketing of their domain name. There are some
clients that have invested their entire life savings in their Internet
company.  They are all every concerned that with the new TLD's another party
(especially their competition) will take their exact dotcom name and combine
it with all of the new TLD's.

In addition, they believe that it is not fair to only give preference to
famous marks. They say that they ICANN should give a 90 day period for all
current owners of dot com names to register their names with the new TLD's.
After the 90-day period, everyone would be able to register any names that
are available.

They also believe that if due to outside pressures, ICANN is forced to
introduce new TLD's, they should definitely start with only 1 new name for
business purposes, so that ICANN can study the reaction of the marketplace
to this new TLD introduction.

Hope that you take into consideration the concerns of our clients.

Jack Landrum

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