Re: Lottery

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

Gilles LERAT allegedly said:

[...]
> 
> Let's say I run company A in Japan providing Internet access and doing
> domain names registration on behalf of my customers, and a company B gets to
> be a registrar in Japan. 
> This company B was an ISP, and still continue to operate as an ISP.
> Would I feel OK to give my money out to my competitor ?
> Certainly not !!! I would continue to go to NSI, because I know NSI does not
> compete 
> with me at all.
>  
> I propose this criteria be valid at long as the attribution of new gTLDs is
> restricted (by way of lottery, or any processes), i.e. until com/net/org 
> are shared.
>  
> In short, the IAHC should give some thoughts as to whether registrars should
> be expected to continue their traditional activity, or completely turn to 
> registration activity.
> NSI was not an ISP, when it applied for managing registrations. Nor should
> be newly acquainted registrars. 

I don't think the problem is serious enough to merit the restriction 
you propose. 

Going to a local competing ISP for registrations doesn't really seem 
that risky from a business perspective.

And even if it was, there would be 20 some other registrars available
to seek registrations.  Even though they wouldn't be local, the ISP
would still be able to get registrations from a wide range of choices. 

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