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ICANN Makes Nice to ccTLDs (Again)
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Maybe ICANN appears to make nice, but ICANN still do not understand what are his and ccTLD common interests.
Did you mention there is no more direct dialog between ICANN and ccTLDs? ICANN removed any URL from its websites to ccTLD regional organizations (CENTR, APTLD, AFTLD, LACTLD, NATLD and global wwTLD www.wwtld.org).
The only remaining channel of communication is the press, and actualy TheRegister has been publishing good articles.
BTW, there are two ccTLD agendas for KL and good ITU-T/ccTLD workshop.
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The 2-letter TLDs that have market value, such
as .TV, are being developed by companies such
as Verisign.
The 2-letter TLDs with no market value, are
slowly being removed from the various root
zones. Many of those are viewed as ccTLDs and
fund a small collection of ICANN groupies to
show up at all of the parties.
The real action is the secret allocations of
the single-letter TLDs. The mobile phone
companies are all over those, because their
customers do not want to type long names on
small keypads.
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Vinton Cerf is telling everyone that 4-letter TLDs
(like .INFO) do not work. You might as well forget
all TLDs with more than 3-letters.
Paul Twinkie is telling everyone that .BIZ is a
failure. He is of course working his GAC Community
to promote 2-letter TLDs. The 2-letter TLDs are
mostly picked over with only a few (.TV .AM .FM)
achieving any wide-spread usage. .ORG is a lost cause with operational problems
and no support from any serious telecommunication
companies. Not even the RIRs (ARIN, RIPE and
APNIC) use the .ORG TLD. They use .NET, even
though they claim to be non-profit.
That pretty much leaves .COM and .NET. People
might as well get used to the fact that it is a
two-TLD world. From a banking point of view, this
is like viewing the world as Visa and Mastercard.
The rest of the business is not interesting.
Starting with .COM and .NET one can start to
rebuild using Front-End Services. Just as PayPal
created their own "currency" (and brand) as a
Front-End to Visa and Mastercard, companies can
now rely on .COM and .NET to be the foundation
for a variety of Front-End Services.
The Registrars really do not like .COM and .NET
because they do not profit from those. There is
no money fighting for 20 cent mark-ups on a
$6 per year regulated product. The Registrars
make their real money by preying on consumers
who forget to renew registrations. They charge
hourly fees to *help* the consumer get back
online. Since many of the .ORG owners are not
net-savy, they are more desirable to the
Registrars who now work the drop-queues and
warehouse names hoping to redirect e-mails to
their servers where they can review them and
find out if the domain has any value. The e-mails
can of course be returned or forwarded for a fee.
The .COM and .NET owners are more net-savy and
do not allow their names to fall into Registrar's
hands. The 10-year registrations allow them to
pay $60 and not worry for a long time. The .COM
and .NET owners could easily deal directly with
the Registry or have their Reseller (Web-Host/ISP)
company handle the transaction. That is exactly
what existed PRIOR to the ICANN-regime of DNS
regulation. There is no need for ICANN to be
involved in .COM and .NET. No one cares what
ICANN does with the 2-letter TLDs. All of the
focus is now on .COM and .NET.
Verisign and Microsoft of course have studied
this and done their market research and see that
Front-End Services will be the next wave. Since
some of those Front-End Services benefit from
more rapid updates of the DNS TLD servers it
should be no surprise that Verisign would be
enhancing .COM and .NET TLD servers to handle
that trend.
Just as Windows overlayed DOS as a Front-End
Extension, the new Front-End Services will
assume only .COM and .NET and will be an overlay
which will give consumers the illusion of a
system that ICANN (IANA) does not want them
to see. Fortunately, with the backing of
Verisign and Microsoft, via .COM and .NET,
the world can move forward and ignore ICANN
and their small closed "community".
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