Re: [ga] Re: Some issues raised by today's FTC action

[Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net>]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, at 14:45 [=GMT-0500], DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> The FTC has taken action predicated on their belief that consumer fraud is
> indicated if attempts are made to register domains that are not "readily
> accessible".
>
> Several ICANN accredited registrars continue to market internationalized
> domain names and special symbol domain names which are not yet and may not be
> fully functional on the Internet and cannot be used for Email Services or any
> other DNS related activity.
>
> I view such marketing efforts as fraudulent to the same degree as the FTC
> views the .usa marketing efforts as fraudulent.  The only difference in my
> mind is that the former is illegitimately "sanctified" by being a part of an
> "experimental test-bed" operated by ICANN registries and registrars, while
> the latter was sanctioned since it was operated by a non-ICANN-accredited
> experimental registry.  Both produce the same results, profits for the
> "producer community" while consumers are given a product of negligible value.

There is this other difference: There are nameservers for the
internationalized domain names and not for those fruad names. Intern.
names do not work for everything and for everyone, but they do work for
many. If you would like to compare the intern. names with anything,
compare them with TLDs in alternative roots.  These also do work, though
not for everyone. One has to go through some extra trouble of changing
settings or downloading software.

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