Re: [ga] The Real World

[Adam PEAKE <pja@glocom.ac.jp>]

During the ALSC study we were told that: 

"VeriSign Registrar estimates that over 75% of its customers are
individuals or small or medium enterprises with less than ten employees.
[Verified in email from VeriSign, Inc. to the ALSC on September 26,
2001]" <http://www.atlargestudy.org/final_report.shtml>

Information presented to show that taking domain name owners as the "At
Large" did not create an electorate of corporate reps.

Statistics, gotta love 'em,

Adam



"Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" wrote:
> 
> THANKS.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kent Crispin [mailto:kent@songbird.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 12:58 PM
> To: ga@DNSO.org
> Subject: Re: [ga] The Real World
> 
> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:25:32PM +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 May 2002, at 23:15 [=GMT-0400], Cade,Marilyn S - LGA wrote:
> > > You must be joking if you equate the registrars and registries with
> > > the business users. Don't mistake us. WE are users.
> >
> > A small but important part of the users, sure.
> 
> Sorry, that is utter nonsense.
> 
> *Most* domain names are registered for business purposes.  (Old
> estimates from NSI were on the order of 70% of registrations in
> .com/net/org combined.  These estimates are necessarily rough, but even
> a casual examination supports it.) If you count domains registered by
> speculators as a business use, the proportion would be even higher.  If
> you throw in all other organizational use, the porportion gets even
> greater.  Domains registered by individuals for purposes other than
> business are a *very* tiny minority of the domains registered, and in
> this regard the GA is completely non-representative.
> 
> *Any* representation scheme that gave equal weight to the various users
> of the domain name system would end up with business getting an
> overwhelming majority of the votes.
> 
> [...]
> 
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