Re: [wg-c] STRAW POLL

["William X. Walsh" <william@dso.net>]

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On 15-Feb-2000 Philip Sheppard wrote:
> Milton, I tried to define our position on how a gTLD differentiation (which
> you called charter) might work (i.e. is it top down or market led) in my
> answer to Question 3:
> 
> "A registry proposes a new gTLD and the NC judges it against the above
> principles. If it passes it happens.
> This leads to the market proposing names it wants but there is a first-mover
> advantage as new names will exclude others. For example: If dot cars was
> accepted for "everything to do with automobiles" then another party wanting
> dot autos for " everything to do with automobiles" might not be accepted
> unless they offered something to differentiate."

Why give them what is essentially a monopoly on automotive related domain
names?  Force the .auto and .car TLDs to distinguish themselves competitively,
like any other industry.  Compete on price, service, etc.

Don't get rid of one kind of monopoly only to create another.

One other thing that bothers me is that you place the registry into the
business of policing content in these cases.  Please, think about this.  I have
a personal domain, one I own in my own name, that is used for a variety of
purposes.  It is used to provide email addresses to friends and family, to host
an ad server for serving ads to various other websites I have, as a test bed
domain for web applications I develop, and will probably have other uses as
well in the next 6 months or so, some commercial some not so commercial.  I
think that people are really dropping the ball here, and tying a single
threaded web content frame of thought into the domain name system.  This is a
common misconception some of the corporate interests involved in this process
are promoting.

And one that really should be revealed for what it is.

If I run an automotive owners club from a .auto domain, and I also provide a
commercial email service under it, would I be violating these holy charters? 
If so, that is simply overly restrictive without any basis before justifying
the restriction.

The DNS is not a certification authority or a content filter.

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