Re: gTLD-MoU Related News (August 19, 1997)

[Adam Todd <at@ah.net>]

>What Karl alleges is precisely correct, with the exception that
>applicants who are disqualified "under this application" are supposed to
>be refunded their money "minus deduction of administrative costs... not
>[to] exceed US$1000."  
>
>However, the applicant needs only be "deemed to qualify" and the money
>is gone, all of it, permanently and without recourse, whether he ever
>becomes a Registrar and no matter why, explicitly including "knowing and
>willful misconduct" (e.g. deliberate fraud) perpetrated by the
>CORE/POC/iPOC/IAHC/or whatever alphabet-soup we take to mean "the

I must admit I'm concerned about the current $30,000 gTLD has currently
taken to publish a list of four names.

If gTLD is about shared registry servies and TLD's my next question is
where are the root servers and where is the Registry software.  Assuming
gTLD doesn't accomplish software and infrastructure (and $30,000 wont' go
far I can assure you, it's cost me over $150,000 this year in RS, TLD, DNS
and Registry software and deployment and we haven't even started!) will
these organisations receive their monies back?

What if gTLD fails in acquiring ANY DNS market share at all?

I know AURSC now has a nice slice that is increasing regularly.


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