[wg-c] Re: cherry picking

["Christopher Ambler" <cambler@iodesign.com>]

> 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.

And if burgers weren't popular in the U.S., McDonald's would sell
fish. Where did you learn economics?

> 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.

Unmitigated FUD.

> 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.

Like CORE.

Christopher