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"If, as ICANN's chairman likes to say, "the internet is for everyone", then why does ICANN continue to obsess on granting an amazing few new TLDs that have fixed ICANN-backed imposed semantics and ICANN-backed restricted uses?"
Could it be that were ICANN to stop imposing these obtuse restrictions they would quickly reveal the fact that things would function just fine without them?
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"If, as ICANN's chairman likes to say, "the internet is for everyone", then why does ICANN continue to obsess on granting an amazing few new TLDs that have fixed ICANN-backed imposed semantics and ICANN-backed restricted uses?"
ICANN continues to obsess on granting few new TLDs because the last batch of TLDs are anemic, with huge blocks of names hoarded by relatively few people. The Internet is for "everyone", but domain names are controlled by a relatively few thousands of people ... speculators.
That's okay, I dabble in it myself. But an honest look at the last batch of gTLDs, .info an .biz, reveals they may as well be sponsored ... by speculators. Mostly speculators are responsible for .info and .biz registration numbers (.us and other ccTLDs too). So speculators are defacto sponsors of those TLDs. In fact, aggressive speculation accounts for the whereabouts of most generic .info and .biz names.
Yes, the Internet (including domain names)IS for everyone. Eventually, all sponsored groups will have their own TLDs, hopfully ensuring that "everyone" gets a good, meaningful, valuable domain name ... not just speculators.
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