[registrars] RE: PDP Dec 05: Reserved Names Working Group: response needed

[Ross Rader]

If I were king, I'd move on from this discussion to something less 
anticompetitive, although I can imagine why potential registry operators 
would want to limit the scope of competition in the manner described.

Marcus Faure wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I do not have a problem with a company using tld.com for their own
> website. I do have a problem with a "registrar" offering 3rd level
> registrations under tld.com, especially if they tell you that this is
> the way the internet is structured, and the reason it is structured
> like that is because they have a good deal with [insert name of big icann
> registrar]. 
> This may not be within our scope, but if I were king I'd rule this out.
> 
> Yours,
> Marcus
> 
> 
>>> The cc.com business
>>> relies on confusing users and leaves them in the hands of a commercial
>>> institution with no oversight, 
>> Such issues are not inherent in the two-letter strings themselves.  If there
>> is an issue relating to how the strings are used, that is probably outside
>> of the scope of domain name policy per se.
>>
>> There is no reason why an entity named Hu is required to be beholden to the
>> nation of Hungary for that entity's inability to register its name as a
>> domain name, any more than endeavors in the fields of electrical engineering
>> or information technology (ee.jobs, it.jobs) should be blocked by "claims"
>> of the nations of Estonia and Italy.
>>
>> Must Procter & Gamble buy out the nation of Papua New Guinea simply to
>> register their own trademark as a domain name?
>>
>> PS - UM, MR. and MS. user, this sort of NO IQ BS BY policy fiat IS bad PR
>> for US, of the kind that SO makes ME want TO throw things AT MY TV (IE - BE
>> IT AN AX or similar instrument). 
>>
>> (That sentence is brought to by the ccTLD's for Palestine, United States
>> Minor Outlying Islands, Mauritania, Montserrat, Norway, Iraq, Bahamas,
>> Belarus Iceland, Puerto Rico, the United States, Somalia, Montenegro, Tonga,
>> Austria, Myanmar, Tuvalu, Ireland, Netherlands Antilles, or Aland Islands.)
>>
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