Yeah. I see sales potential too. As a medical doctor, I could always offer my services as a proxy registrant to anyone who wants to use a domain name under .doctor. :)

Thanks.

Amr

On Mar 18, 2015, at 9:51 PM, Nicolas Adam <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> It seems to me that the sales potential under .doctor would perhaps be *increased* by the move. 
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> It would add legitimacy which could help sell the idea to MDs and would presumably help migrate what sites exists under other gTLD such as .com. It would also justify a price premium. 
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> I'm not sure I would be opposed to it, if i were the applicant ... well ... except to negotiate some other things on the side, of course. It might be counter-intuitive at first, but i think that moves to restrain and differentiate will succeed in extracting more value in the end. Much of the commercial success of a new TLD would, I would think, come from its ability to cater to certain people and so, that should have been the applicants plan for the get go, methinks. 
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> (I *am* opposed to move, don't get me wrong). 
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> Nicolas
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> On 18/03/2015 3:47 PM, Sam Lanfranco wrote:
>> All,
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>> Here is the “trail” on the reference to the following statement...which leads back to ICANN.
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>>  “Domain-name overseer ICANN has decided that only one kind of doctor may be allowed online – and that is a medical doctor”. 
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>> It is in the article by Kieren McCarthy at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/15/icann_doctors/ 
>> Kieren cites a blog by Jon Nevett “The .DOCTOR Quarantine” in http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150312_the_doctor_quarantine/ 
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>> On March 12th Jon Nevett writes: "In an utterly surprising move, ICANN staff and the Board's New gTLD Program Committee ("NGPC") recently informed the applicants for .DOCTOR that it has singled out the gTLD as a test case for controlling content and limiting speech on the Internet."
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>> The following jpeg is from the March 12, 2015 pdf at:
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>>        https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/reconsideration-request-15-3-brice-trail-llc-redacted-12mar15-en.pdf
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