Matt Prigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Far be it from me to defend ICANN, however, the government issued the
> responsibility for delegating TLDs to one entity for a reason (granted they
> chose the wrong entity, but thats beside my point).
>
The wrong entity, the wrong reason, and I might add, the wrong government for
that wonderous place that a lot of Americans tend to forget most of the time -
The Rest Of The World[TM]. I don't like new.net's methodology any more than
you do, but the plain fact of the matter is that new.net have as much or as
little right to set up so-called new TLD's as the US government had to
delegate so-called authority to ICANN.
Ultimately, the US Department of Commerce - which, let's be honest, is the
hand to ICANN's sock puppet - has no right to the gTLD's and the namespace.
New.net can do what they want, when they want, if they have the right strings
available for pulling and the money to back it up. To date, it seems they do,
and they're progressing.
Personally, I'd prefer if there was a proper, democratically elected,
internationally accepted, transparent and not-for-profit organisation in
charge of the namespace, but unfortunately that's not the case, and it's not
going to be the case anytime soon (see the latest on non-existent funding for
At Large elections on icannwatch.org).
Personally, I'd prefer if that organisation had a fast-track campaign to open
the roots for unlimited gTLD's in a calm, open and fair manner. Personally, I
think Esther Dyson and Vint Cerf were and are wrong to proceed the way they
are. Personally, I'm disappointed in Vint Cerf for letting himself become the
head of such a shameful organisation.
But personal doesn't cut it. I hate to say it, but ultimately you just have
to suck it up. New.net can do what they want with their own namespace, and
there's nothing your or I, or more importantly, ICANN, can do about it. You
can bet your last buck that if ICANN had been able to block new.net down,
they would have.
The only solution is to not register domains in their namespace if it bothers
you; and advise your clients not to support it, and hope they heed your
advice. That's what I'll be doing. But that's nothing personal against
new.net. I'm a capitalist too, and I can see they're reasoning. I just don't
like it; I wouldn't have done it that way. But then I'm not them, am I?
> "Who cares about the standard? We'll make up our own standard and then
> use business agreements and the resulting user base to force it to
> become the accepted standard." Yeah, thats Microsoft folks.
>
And just so Patrick understands, that's why I don't like it. New.net are
doing this the Microsoft way, and I don't like the Microsoft way. That's not
because I begrudge Microsoft's success, or because I'm jealous of Bill Gates,
or because I'm an Open Source looney. It's because I think it's unethical and
immoral. I think it's wrong.
adam
