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[wg-c] cherry picking



At 11:55 PM 9/14/99 , Christopher Ambler wrote:
>Image Online Design only wants one. Imagine that.
>...
>I'll see your FUD and raise you some market reality: IOD expects to
>do better with .web than NSI is doing with .com - and you don't

This does highlight the potential -- and expectation -- for cornering a 
market (otherwise translated as capturing customers) by permitting 
registries to cherry-pick (cream skim, low hanging fruit...) gTLDs based on 
strings which are trendy or popular at the time.

Registries which consider their market power so great, by virtue of the 
particular gTLD string they are permitted to administer, will have less 
incentive to provide better price or service service.

> > there is no language in that document which carries an IANA obligation,
> > explicitly or implicitly.
>
>That's a guess on your part. You're wrong again. But regardless, if you
>wish to hold that view, then this view is wrong on all counts, as any
>documents that IANA might have executed are null and void now that
>ICANN has taken over the IANA function and failed to fufill them.

A curious legal view.  It would be bizarre from an attorney.  From a 
non-attorney...

Still the invitation for you to produce documentation to this community, so 
that it can assess the basis and adequacy of your claim, stands.

Absent such documentation there remains no reason to consider independent 
activities anything but independent, and to wish such independent folk good 
luck with their  independent ventures.  We can all enjoy the marvels of an 
Internet which permits these independent activities.

d/

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