Re: [IFWP] Fwd: Re: Power Politics and the New Internet Order

[Michael Sondow]

Roberto Gaetano a �crit:

> >From the mentioned document (see
> http://www.icann.org/policy_statement.html), the opening sentence past the
> Table of Contents sais:
> 
>                 ICANN adopts the following policies concerning accreditation
> of registrars for the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains (TLDs).

> 1. is .com, .org., .net equivalent to the whole domain name space?

Yes, effectively, for the vast majority of Americans and for the
vast majority of commercial and non-commercial organizations.

> 2. before this statement, who was deciding, and under which rules, who was
> registering under .com, .org., .net?

There have been no rules for registering, beyond the payment of the
fees. That is the immense advantage of having such things as name
registration done by a business rather than a regulator: the one
wants to register as many as possible, and so doesn't put
unnecessary restrictions in the way; the other doesn't care how many
(or how few) are able to register, and just wants to control, since
that justifies the positions of its staff.

> 3. were they "owning the whole domain name space"?

No. By not placing restrictions on registration, they have kept the
domain space freely accessible.