[NCSG-Discuss] Closed Generics - a letter together

[Kristina Macaulay]

Anyone out there, collecting the points of concern for this letter together?

On 25 Feb 2013, at 21:22, McTim <dogwallah at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

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> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Kathy Kleiman <kathy at kathykleiman.com> wrote:
> Milton, 
> Because a domain name is not a Top Level Domain. 
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> a TLD IS a domain name.
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>   If we follow your reasoning, there's no reason to perform extensive Technical, Operational and Financial Showings/Review of New Registries.  We don't examine registrants, so why should we examine New gTLD Registries?
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> high barrier of entry methinks.
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> Clearly, it's because they are fundamentally different. Here's something I wrote awhile ago -- my thoughts based on my background as both a Registrant and a Registry:
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> Why is COMPUTER.COM different from .COMPUTER?
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> Given the history of ICANN and our Applicant Guidebook, the answer to this question follows from the existing gTLD program as we have extended it into the New gTLD Program. It is the expectation set by our Community, by the Board and by our New gTLD rules that Registries register domain names on a non-discriminatory basis to Registrants and Registrars.
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> except if they apply for and get an "exception" as you pointed out earlier.
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>     Dot-COM, .ORG and .NET are the public’s models for .BOOK, .APP and .CLOUD.
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> .org and.net were originally limited to non-profits and network infrastructure bodies respectively.
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>  People know that Verisign registers .COM to a wide variety of companies and businesses. While computer.com is registered to a single entity, monopolizing its use, the same is not true of the TLD itself. Verisign must operate .COM in a non-discriminatory way – to registrants and registrars. That’s the essence of being a gTLD Registry.
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>     Thus, for the top level and based on our rules, the public expects generic words such as “com,” “biz,” “book,” “app”  and “cloud” to be run as Registries in the truest sense of the world – as entities engaged in the management, operation and security of the TLD -- committed to registering domain names on a non-discriminatory basis to registrants and registrars globally.  That’s a promise set out in the rules. The public will expect to find the normal array of competitors and innovators in New gTLDs, just as within existing TLDs.
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> except for .cat, .museum and several others.
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> My point is that there is a precedent, there are rules as you have pointed out, and the application of those rules will be where decisions are made.
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> Cheers,
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> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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