Fw: Fw: 3:242 ES (SPAIN)
Richard J. Sexton richard at vrx.net
Mon Sep 21 18:04:50 CEST 1998
>>>The legacy TLD holders are mostly structued to make PROFIT. THe new TLD >>>holders are structued to banish to profits of those Legacy Holders. >>> >> >> legacy TLD holders was there for public interest. New candidates for >>holding new TLDs are for profit. C'mon, in this sort of TLD-gold rush new >>companies are entering bussiness for the money they can do, no for the >>public interest. Of course, hoist the freedom flag is the usual way to get >>the resource to exploit, fooling people. NObody needs ESP, neither AUS, >>IRC, GBR ... but to make money out of it. There are two possabilities. Either people who want to run new tlds want to do sosoly to make money, or they do not. If they are prevented from every being able to run tlds, then it is very easy to say "see, we stopped those bad people" and you have, in effect, a self fulfullng prophecy and the current monoply makes one company more wealthy. If on the other hand, new tlds are not being run solely to make egregious profits (and frankly, given there are more than 50 or so, no regisry should make a huge amount of money, the registrar business is much more lucritive) then by preventing them from exising, you have caused, a priori, a massive injustice. How can you be so sure you are right ? -- richard at culture.getty.edu "It's all just marketing" -------- Logged at Tue Sep 22 19:35:35 MET DST 1998 ---------
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