Re: nettime The .art TLD again: E-Flux are soliciting support for their bid
The rule of the thumb appears to be that anyone deriving income via ICANN is ultimately a crook. After .art is cashed in, we will have: .realart .postmodern .abstract .digitalart .kunst .modern .miro Or maybe you will trust them, again, that they won't do it? ICANN simply figured out how to snatch big money from 2nd level domain market, where there have been sales of up to a $1m or more. They have a license to print money. They behave like incompetent government, devaluating the existing currency by printing new notes. There is zero inherent value in this naming scheme. Why the last part of dot-notation, why not the first one? The only reason is that it's expensive - artificial scarcity. Semantic-wise, art.amazon.com is more meaningful than anything .art well since I first received this request of support from E-Flux I have been wondering about the implications; not good - not good at all. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime The .art TLD again: E-Flux are soliciting support for their bid.
This seems to me to be a rather blatant power grab on the part of the E-Flux crew. The E-Flux service (which may or may not be non-profit) A postscript to that: In ICANN's domain application database, e-flux is listed as an LLC (Limited Liability Company) with Anton Vidokle as Founder and CEO. -F # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime The .art TLD again: E-Flux are soliciting support for their bid
Hello, well since I first received this request of support from E-Flux I have been wondering about the implications; not good - not good at all. This seems to me to be a rather blatant power grab on the part of the E-Flux crew. The E-Flux service (which may or may not be non-profit) has more than a slight elitist tinge about it especially considering the high rates it charges which are deliberating skewed in favour of museums (with good subsidies) or established galleries. The tone of the letter requesting support is crudely self-aggrandising once one manages to take the time to figure out exactly what is going on; if you can manage to peruse their application you'll see (aside from the application jargon) that the model for the 'selection process' by which the .art domain name is awarded to prospective applicants is not at all transparent but will be outfitted with various 'experts' who will determine who is qualified to get the domain name (and at what cost). In a concession to the reality that not all applicants would be able to afford the top-shelf fees there is the inclusion of a sliding scale for those not quite on the radar of the New York cognoscenti. What is also particularly disturbing about this is E-Flux's request is its framing with the phrase 'wouldn't you want someone who REALLY knows about art and the art world' determining who has the privilege of acquiring the .art domain. Meaning that now the E-Flux brand is really going global and seeking to position itself as the East Broadway gatekeepers to the glorious and important world of art. I have no idea who the other applicants are and to what degree they are better or worse but this does not seem at all like a good way to go. allan # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
