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Can TLDs Be Sold?
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Many of us criticize ICANN for overreaching and expanding beyond its mission. Most of the requirements it imposes on new TLD registries are unnecessary and needlessly restrictive. You seem to be asking it to become even more restrictive - a global Federal Trade Commission that scrutinizes every transaction. Is there any reason why ICANN should be doing this, given the fact that we aleady have a FTC, the antitrust division of the Justice Department, the FCC, etc.?
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Can TLDs be Cloned ?
Can all of the existing customers in an existing
TLD be invited (given first preference) to
RE-register in new TLD servers that, for
example, run different protocols or use different
addressing, or which feature a SUB-SET of the
names in a TLD as a feature. For example, there
may be a market for the .ORG TLD with only the
real non-profits visible, as opposed to all of
the adult-content sites. Should the .ORG owners
be encouraged to RE-register in another set of .ORG servers ? Would large corporations prefer
to give their employees access to any of the .ORG domains in the screened .ORG servers ?
Should the large corporations pay for that
service or the .ORG owners ?
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.TRAVEL is "owned" by all of the people and
companies that own .TRAVEL names. If they
become too visible then ICANN will attempt
to regulate them and destroy them and replace
them with warehouses of unused .TRAVEL names.
Walled gardens will help to protect the .TRAVEL
owners from the people who attend ICANN meetings.
Those people may attempt to tell the world that .TRAVEL owners do not exist, but that is a lie.
ICANN people do not care how much they lie. It
is part of their culture. They are determined
to brain-wash people into thinking only about
what they produce. Look at the censorship at
this site as one example.
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Hang on a second.
The coop sTLD has _not_ been "sold."
Coop is a "sponsored" TLD. It is still sponsored by the same entity, and that entity still has a contract with ICANN under which it undertakes to provide services to the cooperative community.
That entity has to remain "representative" of the cooperative community in order to maintain its contract with ICANN on renewal, and if that entity wanted someone else to be the "sponsor" instead, it would have to get ICANN's approval. That entity, the "sponsor" develops policy for the sTLD and controls what kinds of services are offered in connection with coop. And is on the hook as the entity providing the services to the community.
The sTLD has not been sold.
The "sponsor" has its own agreement with another entity that provides certain outsourced services to the "sponsor."
The source of those outsourced services has changed -- that's all. The sponsor is still on the hook for the quality of the services provided by that subcontractor, and still has to serve the cooperative community -- and still has the same contract with ICANN.
The identity of a subcontractor has changed.
Not a big policy moment for ICANN.
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The registry for .com and .net (and in those days .org also) called Network Solutions was bought by Verisign back in the old days. Unfortunately, Verisign was allowed to continue to be the registry for those tlds after the takeover.
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