The deadline to comment to ICANN on Version 3 of the gTLD guidebook (adobe file) is today at midnight.
To see all of the comments submitted so far you can click here.
To submit your own comment click here.
As always once you submit your comment you will receive a confirmation e-mail from ICANN, in which you will have to click on a link in the e-mail, otherwise your comment will not be submitted.
As far as topics to comment about you can always object to the Guidebook still leaving the door opened for no price caps meaning each registry including existing registry’s like VeriSign which controls the .com and .net registry could raise the renewal rates on domain to whatever price they wanted.
If you want to read the Guidebook as to that issue you can find it here.
If you looking for some more issues to comment on check out George Kirikos comments on this.
You can find Mr. Kirikos comment’s on V3 of the Guidebook here, and here.
Or you can simply comment by endorsing all or part of his comments.
We have written about former drafts of the Guidebook here, here and here
The ICA will be filling a comment today as well. To see some of the ICA comments on former versions of the Guidebook click here and here.
Once again this process for new gTLD’s has the possibility of effecting all existing extensions and domains as all registries want to be treated the same and have the same rights, so even if you have no interest in the new gTLD’s you still need to comment.
Thank goodness we have George always helping us out… Too bad everyone at ICANN is asleep at the wheel and traveling while claiming to be non profit.. 😉
I don’t think those at ICANN are a sleep at the wheel.
I think ICANN has a plan to increase their revenue by many fold and are continuing to implement it.
Registries and those seeking to become registries are pushing for their interests as hard as possible through this process.
The only ones a sleep at the wheel are domain holders who have been by in large silent on the issue although they have the most to lose if some of these provisions are finalized.
I would love to see a law that states that if you do not develop your domain within 3 yrs, then your domains will just died.
Get rid of parking companies- they just take your money anyway.
Register the domains-develop them or you lose them!!
The site got to be up and running for 3 yrs.
Good idea?
BullS: Why not do the same with parking lots? Or, perhaps you think that your neighbour’s house isn’t big enough, and you’d like to tear it down and replace it with a McMansion?
As long as folks are paying their renewal fees, they can use their domain names any which way they please. Take a look at where Juice.com goes, for example. If you don’t like how Microsoft is using it, there’s a solution — go buy it from. The market will dictate its value.
Private property is just that — private. People feeling that they have entitlement to someone else’s assets because they feel they know better how to use them are advocates of communism, where private ownership doesn’t exist, but instead assets are owned by the community. History has demonstrated that’s a far less efficient mechanism of allocating scarce economic resources than the capitalist society we live in.
My Goodness George…calm down….
Enjoy as much “capitalism ” you want, but I think the mood is swinging towards Obama’s socialism.
Rise to Marxism!!!
“Marx argued that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, will inevitably produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction”
BullS: You’ve not been following the polls — Obama’s approval level has fallen below 50%. Irregardless of the polls, even Obama isn’t advocating communism or Marxism (i.e. even Warren Buffett is a Democrat). Socialism is more about an argument over what is the appropriate size of the social safety net (healthcare, childcare, etc.), but the means of production are still generally owned by the private sector (they’re just taxed like crazy!). Ask someone in China or Russia whether they’d like to go back to the old ways, and I think you’ll see that capitalism might be “bad” in some people’s eyes, but every alternative is far worse.
And just go back on topic, I added a new comment in the comments archive (link above in the main article) that highlighted how ICANN is going to waste millions of dollars on Rod Beckstrom’s new office space in Palo Alto. How many new gTLDs will ICANN have to approve in order to pay for his fancy new digs and entourage? With California’s unemployment rate above 10%, and firms like AOL and Adobe cutting staff, ICANN is going in the opposite direction and increasing their profligate spending.
Georgie…I know where you are coming from.
Anyway, it is all about the bottom line $$$$$-
Given the chance,ICANN can and will steal the shirt off your back, and they will!!!without a doubt.
Ask anyone on the street who/what ICAAN does?Heck , nobody will know.
So why do we need ICAAN anyway?
I added one more comment (hopefully my final one) to take the registrars to task over one of their comments (see the comment in the archives with the subject “Registrar Stakeholder Group arguments also apply even more to *Registrants”).
The *registrars* went out of their way to object to 7.2(f) of the draft agreement which would allow ICANN to unilaterally change the fees charged to *registries*. Hello?? Shouldn’t the *registrars* use the exact same argument on behalf of their clients, i.e. *registrants*, to ensure that registry operators can’t jack up renewal fees?
It’s clear that the registrar constituency is captured by those who are wanna-be registry operators! Folks should see red when they see registrars taking the side of the registries, instead of taking the position of protecting their clients from the same abuse.
The registrars who want to gouge their clients in the future, if/when they become registry operators themselves, should join the registry constituency as observers, instead of making such a foolish statement on behalf of the registrars.
Some of the notable contributors included Yahoo! Inc., Demand Media, GoDaddy, AT&T, IBM, Visa and Nokia, most of them looking at TM protection. I haven’t taken the time to filter through all the comments yet though.
http://namemon.com/contributions/41-icann/94-icann-draft-for-new-gtlds
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