In an editorial published today by the New York Times, it urges ICANN to follow the suggestion of the FTC and roll out the new gTLD plan slowly.
“”a plethora of new suffixes is just as likely to cause confusion for consumers and enable malefactors to use the new arenas for deception. Icann expects 500 to 1,000 applications in next year’s 90-day application window. Before it approves any of them, it needs to slow down and put in place better safeguards against consumer fraud. “”
“”The Federal Trade Commission is rightly urging Icann to require that registries and registrars be able to verify the identity of owners of all domains that have a commercial purpose, and to impose meaningful penalties for those who break the rules. There is no pressing need to create hundreds of new suffixes next year. It would be far better for Icann to start with a pilot program to work out problems before expanding the system.”
You can read the full editorial here.
hey maybe they could have a evaluation round, say 7-8 new tlds, and then assess the impact on the internet and whether new tlds effected the security of the internet, (DIDNT), vreated conusmer confusion (DID)brought about registry competition (DID), solved the phantom probelm of someone actually making money buy reselling names (DIDNT and WONT), whether the costs to consumers outweighs the benefits of new tlds (DOESNT), whether ICANN can manage a process to gove out new tlds (POORLY), whether sponsored TLD work or just were a workaournd to get a new gtlds (DIDNT WORK AND ARE A WORKAROUND), and whether it opened up more opportunities for fraud and misuse (DID)
.travel
.coop
.musuem
.aero
.pro
.basque
.info
.biz
oh wait they did do a slow roll-out 100 million dollars ago in 2000.
then the us gov gives out .kids.us instead of .kids.
so icann is 0 for 10 on what they gave out, and 0 for 1 and what they stopped.
page howe
What a poorly researched article.