Re: [wg-c] Pre-sold TLDs

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

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No Craig, this unfairly penalizes the rest of the potential domain registrants
who refused to deal with "alternative" self started domain registries.

On 10-Apr-2000 Craig Simon wrote:
> This is my chance to chime in with an old idea of mine from the first days of
> WG-C. Almost no one liked it, and, as Esther Dyson said about ICANN's bylaws,
> if
> no one likes them, they must be a good compromise...
> 
> The goal of my idea was to promote Internet unity and reduce pressures for
> alternate roots, by adding popular new gTLDs while ensuring that alternate
> root
> registrants who thought they were paying to get into the real Internet are
> not
> penalized or antagonized. 
> 
> The gist of it was that all of IOD's .web registrants should be grandfathered
> in
> to the new .web, no matter who runs the registry (i favored a non-profit
> model).
> The same would be true of any other non-IANA TLD, including Adam Todd's, Paul
> Garrin's, etc.. The offer to IOD was a favorable opportunity to become an
> ICANN
> registrar for all gTLDs, with a few months of time granted to operate as the
> exclusive registrar for .web. And the same would go for the others.
> 
> Read all about it at http://www.flywheel.com/ircw/wgc1plan.html
> 
> Chris Ambler and Kent Crispin both despised this idea, so it must be great.
> My
> thinking is exactly counter to thrust of this thread. I expect this effort is
> a
> waste of time, as it was before.
> 
> Also, I think it's correct to say that CORE has taken no registrations, since
> the ill-fated plans for the round robin never took place. So would be no CORE
> registrants to grandfather in.
> 
> Craig Simon

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