Stef wrote:
>Said TM "experts" discount all TLDs as distinguishing one SLD name
>from another, so they want to reduce the number of TLDs to only one.
>
>And of course as soon as they achieve this, they will have shifted the
>entire problem down one level to the 3LD level, because with only one
>TLD, all SLD names are equivalent to being TLDs, and they will have to
>go after the next level down.
>
>The reality is that the TM folks can only massage their problem up and
>down the DNS tree, but cannot make it go away, until they accept that
>higher level names qualify and distinguish lower level names from each
>other.
>
>And, when this reality dawns on them, they will see that more TLDs
>will in fact solve their problems by providing lots of qualifiers and
>differentiators. How many "qualifier" categories does TM law already
>recognize? Why should DNS have any fewer the TM? Why not lots more?
>
>The market structure failure remains the primary cause of the NSI
>monopoly, regardless of what TM interests think, or want to do about
>it. If there were (originally) more TLDs to compete with NSI, then
>NSI would not be the monopoly that it is now. And, the longer the
>Market structure Failure continues, the longer it will take to unravel
>the problems.
>
>But, in any case, the root of the DNS problems we are facing is found
>in the limited number of gTLDs that are now allowed. That is why so
>many ccTLDs are being sucked into the gTLD market vacuum and used as
>gTLDs, in spite of their supposed non-gTLD "mission" in life.
>
>So, where in all of the grand ICANN schemes is the ICANN solution for
>the root of the problem? Namely the Market Structure Failure problem?
>
>Let me guess: Oh Yes, There it is -- Monopoly Cartel Control of the
>entire DNS, with 10's of thousands of registered and certified
>registrars and a few carefully controlled shared registries!
>
Watch for IBM and ATT to appear among those registries - IBM with an ecom
for e commerce GTLD.
>How better to extract ICANN taxes from all concerned?
>
>Cheers...\Stef
>
> PS: NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!!!!!!!!
>
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public [the Communities of the Internet] every time they make a decision,
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