RE: [wg-c] Re: your mail

["Winer, Jonathan" <JWiner@alston.com>]

Marilyn's suggestion here makes some sense to me -- these other two domains
are underutuilized and I've seen other examples of the
multiple-registers-undertaken-in-order-to-avoid-confusion duplication
(triplication?) Exploiting what's available now in better ways would seem
potentially quick and smart.


>  
> Sent:	Saturday, March 18, 2000 3:12 PM
> To:	'Milton Mueller'; Rick H Wesson
> Cc:	wgc
> Subject:	RE: [wg-c] Re: your mail
> 
> Should we also be talking about spinning .net and .org out into separate
> registries? That would present new business opportunities to operate and
> market names in these gTLDs.
> 
>  .org should be more attractive, it would seem to me, than it is. There's
> too much confusion right now, and I think NSI adds to it, perhaps
> inadvertedly.  For instance, when a new non profit group, like a group
> focused on protecting kids online launched (real example), they found it
> necessary to register in .com and .net, and .org.  That happened because
> there is no clear marketing distinction between those "brands". (Sorry,
> but
> bear with me for a moment on this).  
> 
> When this group registered "kidsonline.org", to their chagrin, someone
> registered the .com version. OOPS, wasn't about protecting kids, believe
> me!
> So, lesson learned. When they launched their next non profit
> group/service,
> they registered all three names, but are merely pointing to the .org site,
> where the content/service is located.
> 
> Marketing the distinction between the three isn't in NSI's business
> interest, but if they were separate, it would be in the competitive
> registry's interest... 
> 
> Just a thought... Any ideas from others on this? Marilyn
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Milton Mueller [mailto:mueller@syr.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 4:16 AM
> To: Rick H Wesson
> Cc: wgc
> Subject: Re: [wg-c] Re: your mail
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick H Wesson" <wessorh@ar.com>
> 
> > could you think of a reason that a generic TLD should be chartered and
> run
> > by a monopoly. Its hard from me to understand why we would take 2 steps
> > back and create more situations which have taken more than 4 years to
> > resolve. The NSI monopoly of the .com .net and .org gTLDs is exactly
> what
> > I thought we were to avoid.
> 
> No. NSI had a monopoly because there were NO other registries in the world
> capable of offering a gTLD. NSI was a monopoly "registry." Many of not
> most
> of the problems associated with it could have been avoided by authorizing
> new "registries" regardless of whether they were shared or not.
> 
> NSI was also a very bad registrar in many respects, but IMHO that was
> primarily because one company was stuck with handling 75% of the world's
> registrations.
> 
> New gTLD registries -- such as .biz or .firm -- would introduce
> competition.
> Differentiated registries would also introduce competition for segments of
> the market. It is simply wrong to say that intergation of the registry and
> registrar functions per se creates a "monopoly." and it is also false as a
> matter of historical record to say that the White and Green Paper
> processes
> ruled in favor of the shared model for anything but .com. And the shared
> model was chosen for NSI ONLY because it was so dominant. It is not a
> serious problem for new registries with a small market share.
> 
> 

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