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    The Big Picture Salon interviews John Gilmore
    posted by tbyfield on Tuesday July 02 2002, @02:05AM

    Damien Cave has come a long way. Not two years ago, he dedicated an article about ICANN for the New Republic Online to expanding on the self-serving twaddle spoonfed to him by then-chairwoman Esther Dyson and staffer Andrew McLaughlin -- and dismissing ICANN's critics (including the "ridiculous" ICANN Watch) as "colorful ICANN paranoiacs." This morning, he published a three-page interview with John Gilmore in Salon, and some pretty strong allegations -- for example, that SAIC was "pulling strings" in the process that "ultimately resulted in the creation of NewCo, also known as ICANN" -- get a respectful hearing.



    The interview provides quite a bit of insight into GIlmore's and EFF's motives for supporting Karl Auerbach's lawsuit, as well as an excellent overview of what's wrong with ICANN.

     
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    Re: Salon interviews John Gilmore
    by ANNODOMINI2000 (reversethis-{KU.OC.OOHAY} {ta} {D0002DA}) on Tuesday July 02 2002, @03:17AM (#7561)
    User #3359 Info | http://www.ad2000d.co.uk/
    So where is Salon please? - is it an online newspaper?
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    More New TLDs?? Not sure that will fix the proble
    by edelman@law.harvard. on Tuesday July 02 2002, @09:53AM (#7569)
    User #884 Info | http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/edelman.html
    One of Gilmore's suggestions was the addition of more TLDs -- thousands more. ("the policy that would actually satisfy the public interest would be to have thousands of top-level domains, in which anyone could register a name")

    Based on my limited investigation of .BIZ -- quantifying defensive registrations and trying to get a handle of how many .BIZ domains are actually being put to active use in offering web sites -- I've seen what I took to be a lot of the former and a little of the latter. The conclusion I can't help but draw from these findings is that more new TLDs may not fix the core problems here. Now, adding many new TLDs at once may be different from adding just a few at a time -- may have less defensive registrations, in particular, since defensive registrations become excessively costly (and therefore impossible) in a 1000-TLD world. But if no one is much using .BIZ, as my examination suggests, then what is anyone going to do with TLDs like .w7k or .nuy6? So it's hard to think that new TLDs of this sort will address whatever problems remain with .COM's market power, the single .COM registry, etc.

    For consumer protection and improved quality of service, I therefore can't help but look back to ICANN -- for serious investigations of alleged wrongdoing by registries and registrars, for sanctions against wrongdoers, and for strict guidelines as to what's expected. Whether or not ICANN is up to that task is debateable, but as Tucows recently suggested, these enforcement activities could and arguably should be a substantial portion of ICANN's work.
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    Re: Salon interviews John Gilmore
    by PeterBarron (pebarron@hotmail.com) on Tuesday July 02 2002, @11:16AM (#7572)
    User #3240 Info | http://www.icannwatch.org/
    Who cares if a registry fails?

    Gilmore is absolutely correct. If you create hundreds or thousands of TLDs, defensive registrations take on a meaningless position.

    If you feel that new registries will fail, then I invite you not to patronise them.

    ++Peter
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    Joe Sims responds
    by fnord (reversethis-{moc.oohay} {ta} {k2yorg}) on Wednesday July 03 2002, @11:21AM (#7616)
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    On Dave Farber's interesting people list, and Declan McCullagh's politechbot list [latter site has been down for a few hours]. -g
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    Re: Salon interviews John Gilmore
    by fnord (reversethis-{moc.oohay} {ta} {k2yorg}) on Tuesday July 02 2002, @09:11AM (#7568)
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    Thanks for the obligatory pro-ICANN anonymous post. -g
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    Without marketing...
    by isquat on Tuesday July 02 2002, @01:21PM (#7578)
    User #3363 Info | http://i.squ.at/
    Any new generic TLD will fail in the present very restricted market, if it does not spend a lot of effort and money on marketing.
    Why were there no give away campaigns of domains, e.g. as prizes for good informational sites?
    Were there adds on TV? Worldwide?
    Any coverage in main shows on TV?

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