Steve Crocker on New TLDs

Again, Afilias' corruption was evident long before ICANN awarded them .info. It didn't take a genius to predict what would happen. IOD has shown none of this corruption -- this, I think, is a very important point to consider.

I don't know that we are too far apart on the issue of ICANN oversight. But you are exactly right when you say a company that fails to live up to its promises would gain the distrust of its consumers. This is as it should be, and would sovle this issue completely were consumers able to go elsewhere...but they can't, can they? Ideally, ICANN would step in at some point, but in the end the market will take care of that company.

Am I proposing a free-for-all approach? No, I certainly am not. This system isn't perfect, and never will be. This is a lot like saying DOC is corrupt, so therefore we can't have any new businesses until we solve the DOC corruption issue.

At what point do we judge ICANN competent enough to consider applicants fairly? This is an important question, for if you are proposing we all sit idly by until ICANN gets its act together, somebody better be willing to establish some measure by which we know its time for more TLDs. Otherwise the entire issue becomes horribly subjective and impossible to resolve.

A final point: What this business sector needs is some non-shady, technically-adept, popular-product-wielding company to set some sort of standard. ICANN simply isn't going to do that. If enough of these companies emerge, ICANN will take its proper place in the dust bin of really bad ideas.

Shelby Hudgens

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