Comments on: eNom and Tucows to ICANN: Hurry Up and Introduce New TLDs http://domainnamewire.com/2009/09/21/enom-and-tucows-to-icann-hurry-up-and-introduce-new-tlds/ News and Views for the Domain Name Industry Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:15:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dot .speculation http://domainnamewire.com/2009/09/21/enom-and-tucows-to-icann-hurry-up-and-introduce-new-tlds/comment-page-1/#comment-490441 Dot .speculation Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:54:26 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=8275#comment-490441 It's the end of internet for the greed of a few. Business owners will be forced to pay thousands to the nice people in the list to defend their brand form cybersquatter on every new nonsense domain they will create. I'm already looking forward to the new amazing innovation . For the benefit of Safety Considerations (their safety), Internet Stability (more like the stability of their bank accounts), Innovation (On this I do agree. the largest scam ever!) ...I can't wait to have to pay up to 200€ to register in the sunrise phase mybrand.love, mybrand.hate, mybrand.widget, mybrand.scam and more more nonsense Members of this bunch of "absolutely no special interests" lobby are now spamming with the same ludicrous claims blogs and news sites. The new TLD's and the prospect of holding at ransom legitimate brand/TM/website owners is so appealing that even the CEO's of large registrars are finding more time to give their impartial views on any site carrying stories about the new unlimited TLD's. In case you may want to balance with your opinions their ludicrous claims, here's one of the sites which had recetly the honour of listing the comments of two CEO's of the lobby ( encirca and blacknights): http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/172901/us_loosens_grip_on_icann_domain_chaos_to_follow.html It’s the end of internet for the greed of a few.
Business owners will be forced to pay thousands to the nice people in the list to defend their brand form cybersquatter on every new nonsense domain they will create.
I’m already looking forward to the new amazing innovation . For the benefit of Safety Considerations (their safety), Internet Stability (more like the stability of their bank accounts), Innovation (On this I do agree. the largest scam ever!) …I can’t wait to have to pay up to 200€ to register in the sunrise phase mybrand.love, mybrand.hate, mybrand.widget, mybrand.scam and more more nonsense

Members of this bunch of “absolutely no special interests” lobby are now spamming with the same ludicrous claims blogs and news sites. The new TLD’s and the prospect of holding at ransom legitimate brand/TM/website owners is so appealing that even the CEO’s of large registrars are finding more time to give their impartial views on any site carrying stories about the new unlimited TLD’s.
In case you may want to balance with your opinions their ludicrous claims, here’s one of the sites which had recetly the honour of listing the comments of two CEO’s of the lobby ( encirca and blacknights):

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/172901/us_loosens_grip_on_icann_domain_chaos_to_follow.html

]]> By: Domain Name Wire » News » Deerhake Says He Didn’t Agree to Sign ICANN Letter for New TLDs - The Domain Industry's News Source http://domainnamewire.com/2009/09/21/enom-and-tucows-to-icann-hurry-up-and-introduce-new-tlds/comment-page-1/#comment-489522 Domain Name Wire » News » Deerhake Says He Didn’t Agree to Sign ICANN Letter for New TLDs - The Domain Industry's News Source Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:18:41 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=8275#comment-489522 [...] letter that he is listed as a signatory on urged ICANN to move forward with new top level domain names [...]

[...] letter that he is listed as a signatory on urged ICANN to move forward with new top level domain names [...]

]]> By: BOB http://domainnamewire.com/2009/09/21/enom-and-tucows-to-icann-hurry-up-and-introduce-new-tlds/comment-page-1/#comment-483123 BOB Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:24:41 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=8275#comment-483123 George you right I do not think they got it yet they are 15 years a head of themselves. George
you right I do not think they got it yet they are 15 years a head of themselves.

]]> By: George Kirikos http://domainnamewire.com/2009/09/21/enom-and-tucows-to-icann-hurry-up-and-introduce-new-tlds/comment-page-1/#comment-483033 George Kirikos Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:37:00 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=8275#comment-483033 eNom is partners with VeriSign for .tv. What "innovations" have they introduced, besides tiered pricing? LOL How much have .com prices gone down because of all the "competition" from .tv? Or .info? Or .biz? Or .mobi, .asia and .tel? LOL (of course, .com prices have been going up, because of ICANN incompetence; there should be a tender process for registry management, as hopefully the courts will order via the CFIT lawsuit) The history of new TLDs is the history of failure. Except for a few quick bucks at the sunrise/landrush, where the registries profit from the "usual 100,000" domains that always get registered, no new TLD have gained any traction in the minds of consumers. Travel represents 10% of the economy, but .travel is an utter failure. There are a large number of "professionals" out there, but who uses a .pro? No one of consequence. 60% of the world lives in Asia, but how many people use .asia? Billions of people own telephones or mobile phones, but .mobi and .tel are insignificant. I hope that the NTIA/DOC/DOJ put an end to the circus through more direct instructions to ICANN. A large number of people don't get their "first choice" of seats when Britney Spears or U2 have concerts. That doesn't mean we build 8000 concert halls in Toronto so that different people can sit in the front row on 8000 different nights. New TLDs are like building stadiums with a capacity of 50,000 people where only 100 people sit in the front row, but 49,900 seats sit empty. The "consumer demand" is only for those 100 seats. New TLD advocates want everyone else to subsidize their 50,000 seat palaces (that subsidy being the consumer confusion, abuse, etc. via externalities) so that they can auction off those 100 seats. That's not a business model that works in the real world, nor should it work in ICANN's fantasy world. eNom is partners with VeriSign for .tv. What “innovations” have they introduced, besides tiered pricing? LOL How much have .com prices gone down because of all the “competition” from .tv? Or .info? Or .biz? Or .mobi, .asia and .tel? LOL (of course, .com prices have been going up, because of ICANN incompetence; there should be a tender process for registry management, as hopefully the courts will order via the CFIT lawsuit)

The history of new TLDs is the history of failure. Except for a few quick bucks at the sunrise/landrush, where the registries profit from the “usual 100,000″ domains that always get registered, no new TLD have gained any traction in the minds of consumers. Travel represents 10% of the economy, but .travel is an utter failure. There are a large number of “professionals” out there, but who uses a .pro? No one of consequence. 60% of the world lives in Asia, but how many people use .asia? Billions of people own telephones or mobile phones, but .mobi and .tel are insignificant.

I hope that the NTIA/DOC/DOJ put an end to the circus through more direct instructions to ICANN.

A large number of people don’t get their “first choice” of seats when Britney Spears or U2 have concerts. That doesn’t mean we build 8000 concert halls in Toronto so that different people can sit in the front row on 8000 different nights. New TLDs are like building stadiums with a capacity of 50,000 people where only 100 people sit in the front row, but 49,900 seats sit empty. The “consumer demand” is only for those 100 seats. New TLD advocates want everyone else to subsidize their 50,000 seat palaces (that subsidy being the consumer confusion, abuse, etc. via externalities) so that they can auction off those 100 seats. That’s not a business model that works in the real world, nor should it work in ICANN’s fantasy world.

]]> By: Ed Muller http://domainnamewire.com/2009/09/21/enom-and-tucows-to-icann-hurry-up-and-introduce-new-tlds/comment-page-1/#comment-482978 Ed Muller Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:43:58 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=8275#comment-482978 Tell me if I got this wrong after reading the whole PDF: The Chinese and Iraqi criminal networks use illegitimate extensions, so if they had real TLDs the world would be safer? Wow, lets implement .criminal right away and get those buggers signed up! Question is how many of the co-signors will be asking to have their names removed in the next week before Congress starts to use this as ammo for some serious oversight of the entire industry? Tell me if I got this wrong after reading the whole PDF:
The Chinese and Iraqi criminal networks use illegitimate extensions, so if they had real TLDs the world would be safer? Wow, lets implement .criminal right away and get those buggers signed up!

Question is how many of the co-signors will be asking to have their names removed in the next week before Congress starts to use this as ammo for some serious oversight of the entire industry?

]]> By: bob http://domainnamewire.com/2009/09/21/enom-and-tucows-to-icann-hurry-up-and-introduce-new-tlds/comment-page-1/#comment-482881 bob Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:16:20 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=8275#comment-482881 If you put all those guys in one room you will have jerry springer show. If you put all those guys in one room you will have jerry springer show.

]]> By: Seb http://domainnamewire.com/2009/09/21/enom-and-tucows-to-icann-hurry-up-and-introduce-new-tlds/comment-page-1/#comment-482879 Seb Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:13:32 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=8275#comment-482879 Greed and $ signs in their eyes. Pitiful... Will leave eNom for Moniker. Greed and $ signs in their eyes.
Pitiful…

Will leave eNom for Moniker.

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