[CPWG] ALAC Advice to the ICANN Board on ISOC/PIR Issue

[Nadira Alaraj]

An excellent point Roberto on the different business models.
Upon ICANN lifting the upper cap in attempt to have a standard among all
registries it did eliminate certain component of market competition leaving
registeries with slim chance for creativity.
Nadira


On Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 13:54 Roberto Gaetano <roberto_gaetano at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> As anticipated in the chat during the call, I believe that there is one
> point that we might want to highlight.
> Under “Observations” I would add something like:
>
> 3. .ORG is the only large gTLD that is committed to operate in the public
> interest
> One of the reasons for ICANN to exist was to introduce competition in the
> DNS marketplace. It did so by splitting the registry and the registrar
> function, introducing competition at the registrar level, but also by
> re-delegating .ORG to a non-profit. This has ensured not only to have a
> champion of good practices, but also to increase competition because .ORG
> has a different business model, that is not oriented exclusively to
> maximisation of the profit. Disappearance of this alternative business
> model will substantially reduce the competition in the marketplace.
>
> I know that this is coming quite late, I am sorry for that.
> However, this point might be relevant because it hints that ICANN is not
> fulfilling its obligation of fostering competition if it allows the
> disappearance of an alternative business model for a registry.
> Cheers,
> Roberto
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