ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter
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ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter
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Re: ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter
#2The letter itself: https://domainnamewire.com/wp-content/ICA-Letter-to-ICANN-Bo... [PDF]
Re: ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter
#3The letter itself: https://domainnamewire.com/wp-content/ICA-Letter-to-ICANN-Bo... [PDF]
I have certainly taken the internet's infrastructure for granted at times. Can someone who follows this more closely say something about how this is likely to play out?
The profit motive is helpful in some areas, but it can just wreck service-related fields.
Re: ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter
#4Excellent Article and insightful comments setion.
As much as I hated seeing the US Department of Commerce having stewardship of ICANN this recent development this is really a body blow to all .org stakeholders.
I guess we all should have seen this coming when it was spun off to a "Multi stakeholder board".
First an increase in allowed fee's then the private turnover. A well scripted subversion.
Re: ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter
#5I find it quite impressive that everyone raised their voices, although ICANN and PIR seem to turn a blind eye to them.
For a registry, their main costs are nameserver costs and ICANN licensing fees (~$25K for gTLDs, not sure for classic TLDs). It's totally unfair on PIR side to jack the prices up just because they can.
Re: ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter
#6This makes me think of ENS project (based on Ethereum) that is making a decentralized TLD. The registry is managed automatically by a smart contract.
Pros? The conditions are equal to all users. Cons? It is a wild west style registry with no governance besides the little the automated algorithm offers.
They're goal, if I understood correctly, is having .eth TLD managed by this decentralized registry. It can be an interesting experience.
[Full disclosure: I'm part of the Almonit project which uses ENS]
Re: ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter
#7Raising the price for tld would actually be a good thing, as it would make "domain investing" (domain hoarding) unprofitable.
Let's say a .com costs $1,000 per year. For a legitimate business / organization, that is a trivial cost. For a domain hoarder, that makes keeping domains by and large unprofitable.
Killing this parasitic activity is a good thing.
Re: ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter
#8Raising the price for tld would actually be a good thing, as it would make "domain investing" (domain hoarding) unprofitable. Let's say a .com costs $1,000 per year. For a legitimate business / organization, that is a trivial cost. For a domain hoarder, that makes keeping domains by and large unprofitable. Killing this parasitic activity is a good thing.
That's complete nonsense. Many many people hold TLDs for their private websites. That's a thousand dollars for each one of your websites. That's ridiculous, not everyone can afford that. This would be the death of small independent websites. Though I wouldn't be surprised if that's what's happening.
Re: ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter
#9Raising the price for tld would actually be a good thing, as it would make "domain investing" (domain hoarding) unprofitable. Let's say a .com costs $1,000 per year. For a legitimate business / organization, that is a trivial cost. For a domain hoarder, that makes keeping domains by and large unprofitable. Killing this parasitic activity is a good thing.
> Let's say a .com costs $1,000 per year.
I know you meant this as an example, but $1000 is a lot of money for many students, hobbyists, bloggers and startups.
For that matter, even $100 will put many at a huge disadvantage in low income countries. I'd rather have squatting than make domains unaffordable for the developing world.
Re: ICA asks ICANN to block .Org private equity deal in damning letter
#10Raising the price for tld would actually be a good thing, as it would make "domain investing" (domain hoarding) unprofitable. Let's say a .com costs $1,000 per year. For a legitimate business / organization, that is a trivial cost. For a domain hoarder, that makes keeping domains by and large unprofitable. Killing this parasitic activity is a good thing.
Would this not also affect individual bloggers, many of which often make the HN front page with high quality content?
Perhaps there is a more sophisticated approach to this problem than simply raising prices across the board.