Kerry and all,
Kerry Miller wrote:
> 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.
In part this is a very good point, and it has been made many times
before. I would add that it is a misconception to state that there is
any
Market failure at all. I would agree that there is an existing market
constraint. And that the USG played a critical role in continuing that
constraint far too long. But overall the DNS and the Internet as a whole
is the biggest market success in my lifetime. It is certainly true that
perceived demand to expand that market is necessary and desired....
>
>
> 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.
How do you perceive this to be so?
> 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.
Very much true....
>
>
> kerry
Regards,
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