At 4:49 PM -0700 7/25/00, William X. Walsh wrote:
>Hello David,
>
>Tuesday, July 25, 2000, 4:18:35 PM, you wrote:
>
>>>>Proposals will need to be accompanied by a $50,000 application fee, a
>>>>business plan, and policy details, among many other requirements.
>
>> Does anyone know how this process will play out?
>
>> That is, if a new ".shop" TLD is created, would one company be in
>>the InterNIC role and other registrars then apply to be allowed to
>>offer those domains as well?
>
>This presumes that all TLDs will be shared like com/net/org. I don't
>think that would necessarily be the case, and nothing from ICANN
>indicates that. I also don't think it would be wise to force all
>registries to be shared like com/net/org are.
Is there some benefit to a single-registrar registry?
Did .com owners benefit somehow from NSI's monopoly? If so, how?
D
