Constantinos has his own opinion and agenda which is fine. Just like ‘Will Tell’ does.

At least, Constantinos agenda is more obvious.

If any decision is made to thwart new entrants in the new TLD space, I believe there will be more anti-trust litigation.

The excuse by the incumbent registries are that there will be abuse of registry data will result in higher prices and unavailability of higher value domain names. With hundreds of new TLDs, this concept it flawed. Let the market decide.

If I were ICANN I would incorporate domain registration caps as criteria, which would not allow registries such as Verisign, Afilias, Neustar or registrars such as Godaddy and Enom/Demand Media to integrate.

The issue is Verisign has over 80 million registrations and there is no way .com would ever be replaced or seriously competed against. However, mechanisms to level the playing field should be allowed and exceptions for new entrants to be allowed, especially ones with social benefits.

New TLDs are inherently handicapped relative to the dominant extensions. I am afraid that without implementing the necessary mechanisms for new entrants to incorporate their business models, the whole new gTLD launch will be destined to be a complete failure. The goal is to make new TLDs a success. That is ICANN’s goal. The goal is not to protect others business models and hide behind issues such as “registry abuse” which can be dealt with using the appropriate mechanisms that deal specifically with those type of violations.

Best of luck CFIT.

It has been a part of the rise of the .CC extension.

A dissolution of a monopoly from a US based company may alleviate some of that… but I doubt it, momentum has begun minds have been set.