ICANN is pricing out small and medium sized business in new gtlds says the NYT website

[Kathy Kleiman]

It's an interesting article... and one that gets many things right. But
not a critical detail about the IP Clearinghouse. We/NCUC did object
strongly to the IP Clearinghouse and have since the start. It is outside
the scope and mission of ICANN, a technical body, to run a global,
unprecedented and undefined intellectual property rights database.
Konstantinos and I have done a lot on work on this, and on our concerns
for how easily it can misused.

The solution is simple: have a few such Clearinghouses run
**privately**. A Clearinghouse in each major region will understand the
trademark laws of the countries (and their territorial and other limits)
and easily operate in the language and scripts of the regional
countries. Some private companies agreed with me (and approached me
after my speech).

But the NY Times reporter stayed late at lunch, and came in after my
speech and its opposition to the IP Clearinghouse - I saw him slip in a
little later :-).
Best,
Kathy
> There is another article, by the same writer Saul Hansell, who, incidentally, attended the NCUC breakfast, that specifically
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> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/brokering-peace-between-brand-owners-and-domainers/
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> At 11:52 PM 7/14/2009, Robin Gross wrote:
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>> Interesting post on the NY Times website today about how ICANN's new gtld rules are pricing small and medium sized businesses out of the market entirely.  So much for innovation and Internet start-ups.  Noncommercial entrants won't stand a chance of getting a new top level domain under ICANN's proposed rules and costs either.  Sigh.
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>> <http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/the-best-internet-addresses-will-cost-a-cool-million/?ref=technology>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/the-best-internet-addresses-will-cost-a-cool-million/?ref=technology
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