Re: [wg-c] Pre-sold TLDs

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

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On 17-Apr-2000 John Charles Broomfield wrote:
> Chris, are you trying to tell us that IOD has finally thought that it would
> be a good idea to accept a situation where ".web" gets inserted in the
> legacy roots even if it doesn't belong to IOD, have it setup in a shared
> registrar fashion,

This presumes that all new gTLDs should be setup in a shared registrar fashion.
This is not the case.  

I would certainly not agree with this setup.  

Just like I don't agree that self-declared registries who took a risk and setup
their own shop in the hopes of getting recognized should have any more rights
than anyone else in the application process, I also don't believe that anyone
who registered with a registrar or registry who was speculating in this fashion
should have any rights to those registrations beyond what the general public
will have.  They should be advised that registrations for real names in the
real roots will begin soon, and that they will have their chance, along with
the rest of the public, to secure their favorite names when the registries are
openned.  

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