Stef wrote,
> 1. The US Government has created a market structure failure by
> ineptly allowing the DNS gTLD names space to be arbitrarily
> restricted in size (only 3 useful names), thus creating an dire
> artificial shortage of desireable DNS names...
The USG didnt create the market; how can it have created the
market failure? The issue is rather that the *perception of scarcity
has led to 3 entirely useful, i.e. distinctive, names being ignored,
so that for all *marketing* intents and purposes there may as well
be no gTLD at all.
The creation of a host of registrars obviously will do nothing to
change this. The creation of a host of registries will only make it
worse. There will be no improvement until it is accepted that simply
calling a name 'property' does not make it so -- or else that (so-
called!) act of calling is also proprietary! Competition is based on
some practical goods or service; wihout that practicality, all you
have is 'intellectual' nonsense, of which the squabbles and
posturing here are ample proof.
kerry
