Re: Specific Questions

[chris@hal.iodesign.com (Christopher Ambler)]

>Second, do like Chris and others want -- allow any applicants at all,
>charge nothing, and have them all share a .exp (for "experimental")
>TLD for an extended period -- say six months or a year.  They would be
>required to get a large scale shared registry running in that time. 
>After the year a good number will be weeded out, and the registrars
>themselves could vote to remove incompetents.  The suffering users of
>the .exp TLD would automatically be given domains in non-experimental
>registries at the end of the year. 

Kent, this is not what I want. To be given a .exp to share would gain
nothing, as nobody would register in it. NSI would continue to profit
from com/net/org, and the new registrars would be forced to work for
the shared protocol before being allowed to compete.

Perhaps if we implement the above suggestion concurrent with each
registry running a single gTLD exclusively while the .exp is being
created, that would work. Once .exp is finished, all existing
exclusive gTLDs go to shared and .exp is retired to the Internet
History Museum. 

This I could support.

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Christopher Ambler
President, Image Online Design, Inc.