Re: 60 day waiting period

[Alan Sullivan <sully@frontiernet.net>]

Terry O'Neill wrote:
> 
> As a web presence provider, my company is adamantly opposed to a 60 day
> waiting period for domain names.

SNIP

> 
> And by the time their domain names are approved, most of the websites we
> build will have been sitting dormant for nearly two months. Websites will
> be out of date by the time we activate them. They may even be obsolete
> depending on what new products have been released, who's gone out of
> business, and what special features have been built into their web page.
> Customer satisfaction drops, and development costs to fix these problems
> rises. By the time their websites go live most of our customers will have
> lost much of their enthusiasm for the project, the Internet, and the World
> Wide Web.
> 
> The sixty-day policy tilts the Internet in favor of larger organizations
> and against smaller ones, even while the vast majority of businesses on the
> web are small. If the Internet is still intended to be accessible to
> everyone, the urge to build in technically-unnecessary administrative
> barriers must be resisted.
> 
> Terry O'Neill
> Mariner Systems Services Inc.

Yes - I think all should take heed to these arguments. If those who make
Internet policy decisions don't listen to companies such as Mr.
O'Neill's the Internet is destined to be replaced by some other network
infrastructure more friendly to commerce. I am afraid if the IAHC gets
this one wrong - the customers of the Internet will lose interest and
the Internet will subside to the academic obscurity from which it came. 

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Alan Sullivan -- Top Domain Registry Inc.
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