Re: International Registries

[kevinbr@netcomm.ie (Kevin Brown)]

Ian,

I have maintained that the current ISO TLDs should be examined, as they
should be used more.

My contention was that IANA "owned them" and delegated them, and then
forgot about them, ie you must go to IANA for permission to run the ISO
TLD, but IANA then do not care about policy once it is delegated, as they
claim that at that point it becomes an issue with that nations government.

New TLDs will not solve the current weakness on existing TLDs: A uniform
enforcible policy before and AFTER delegation.

Your point is valid ... I, as the holder of the Irish NetComm domain, am
waiting for the UK US and Australian Netcomm ( or Netcoms) to come after
me.

IANA have never specified a policy in this instance, and neither has the
holders of the delegated domains. It is sad that some people bleat about
central authourity of the Internet, and then orphan that authourity
blindly.

I met with an organisation yesterday that are still puzzeled and in the
dark as to why they were not delegated a ISO TLD. Process? What process?

Examine the flaws with the current policy, in order to find a better policy
for any new TLDs.

I have seen no reason to think that if ISO TLDs failed, then also will any
others.

By the way, there are as many people registerd in the ISO domains as are in
.com.

Kevin

(Yes Perry, I am still bleating.......)

At 7:07 19/11/96, ZZZZPICB wrote:
>
>     It seems to me that a primary problem that will be addressed stems
>     from the fact that about 87% of the world's domain names are
>     registered in the .com upper level domain.  Will the introduction of
>     up to 150 new upper level domains reduce the cachet of a .com address?
>      There presently are alternative registries where names can be
>     registered.  However, most businesses prefer to have a .com address.
>     In part, this reflects US dominance of the internet.  As more people
>     and businesses come online in Europe, Asia and Africa perhaps the
>     prestige value of a .com address would naturally diminish in any
>     event.
>
>     Would .corp, and .biz generic upper level domains relieve the pressure
>     much in the same way the introduction of 888 exchanges has expanded
>     the number of available toll free phone numbers?  Or would it force
>     trademark owners to register their names in even more domains?  Under
>     a new system would coke need to register in 150 new worldwide generic
>     domains?  Or fight 100 different people who registered coke as their
>     domain name to trade on coke's trademark rights?  If multiple
>     registries are allowed to accept domain names, should there be a
>     uniform set of guidelines governing trademark rights?  And how would a
>     new system address international trademark disputes, since trademark
>     rights typically are territorial in nature and have no
>     extraterritorial effect?  Perhaps the existing country-code system has
>     more merit than people would like to acknowledge, and instead of
>     creating new generic domains we should be encouraging new registrants
>     to register in the .us, .ca or .au upper level domains?
>
>     I am not advocating a particular position, but merely raising
>     questions to stimulate discussion.
>
>          Ian Ballon
>          Brown & Bain
>          1755 Embarcadero Road, Suite 200
>          Palo Alto, California 94303
>
>          Phone: (415) 856-9411
>          Fax:   (415) 856-6061
>
>          Email: iballo00@counsel.com
>
>

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