[...] hired economic report on the costs and benefits of introducing new top level domain names. Unlike the last report from a different author, this one lays out clear logic rather than just playing to the hands of [...]

[...] latest hired economic report on the costs and benefits of introducing new top level domain names. Unlike the last report from a different author, this one lays out clear logic rather than just playing to the hands of [...]

[...] dans le secteur des noms de domaine (sauf erreur de notre part). D’ailleurs dès le 7 juin, Domain Name Wire ne titrait-il pas “Dennis Carlton Agrees with Dennis Carlton About New Domain Names” [...]

Here we have the whole U.S.-ICANN relationship up for review, with a broad range of interests saying in unison that ICANN has never produced a credible economic analysis to justify the possibility of unlimited numbers of new gTLDs, and they respond to that criticism by paying the same individual (with funds that originate from registrants) to issue an updated paper that deflects all criticism and asserts he was right the first time around. And they announce these self-serving papers as “Final Reports”, as if this should end all further discussion. Clueless doesn’t even begin to describe such behavior!

For the record, ICA has consistently voiced strong opposition to differential pricing between domains at the same registry because permitting that would be to authorize registry operators to tax the economic success of registrants and their websites. Registries are monopoly data service providers and deserve a reasonable return for their work, but must not be granted the power to extort.

Dennis Carlton Agrees with Dennis Carlton About New Domain Names (Andrew Allemann/Domain Name Wire) http://bit.ly/15Gzgj