[CPWG] The threat to memorable domains is now itself threatened

[Carlton Samuels]

I can confirm this is a long held view.  So I say again, you may not see a
successful contradiction of fact.

However, consider the role vanity could play as a useful explanation?

In another context, an astute congressman from Texas once remarked that if
you could not look a man in the eye, take his money, drink his liquour and
'consort' with his wife and still vote against him, you have no business
being in Congress.

Maybe just a tad in the outer band of the congressman's moral compass.  But
in my view one could have no right being a serious domainer if you couldn't
sell one of them suckers....'em, I mean registrants, a memorable domain.

Carlton


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On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 13:50, Evan Leibovitch via CPWG <cpwg at icann.org>
wrote:

> Anyone who hasn't yet conditioned themselves to tune out my previous posts
> should know my concern that the biggest threat to ICANN's memorable-domain
> house-of-cards is not from bullshit schemes like blockchain domains. The
> threat has been from Google and other search engines. Every time someone
> searches a word, or a brand, or a concept in a search engine, they're not
> using a domain. The whole DNS could be human-unreadable and single-TLD and
> most people wouldn't care.
>
> I consider ICANN's greed-induced proliferation of "memorable" domains to
> be second generation technology of how people find things on the Internet.
> First-gen was the likes of Gopher, Yahoo and AltaVista. And
> third-generation are Bing and Google, moderately context and location
> aware, but a massive step up from using the DNS for search.
>
>
> <https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-may-hurt-googles-ad-business-former-exec-says-report-2022-12>
> The fourth generation beckons
> <https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-may-hurt-googles-ad-business-former-exec-says-report-2022-12>.
> Be prepared
> <https://lifehacker.com/chatgpt-is-the-coolest-and-most-terrifying-new-tech-o-1849874899>.
> Or at least be aware <https://chat.openai.com>.
>
> Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
> @evanleibovitch / @el56
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