On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Kathy Kleiman <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Milton, > Because a domain name is not a Top Level Domain. > a TLD IS a domain name. > If we follow your reasoning, there's no reason to perform extensive > Technical, Operational and Financial Showings/Review of New Registries. We > don't examine registrants, so why should we examine New gTLD Registries? > > high barrier of entry methinks. > Clearly, it's because they are fundamentally different. Here's something > I wrote awhile ago -- my thoughts based on my background as both a > Registrant and a Registry: > -------------------- > > *Why is COMPUTER.COM different from .COMPUTER?* > > Given the history of ICANN and our Applicant Guidebook, the answer to this > question follows from the existing gTLD program as we have extended it into > the New gTLD Program. It is the expectation set by our Community, by the > Board and by our New gTLD rules that Registries register domain names on a > non-discriminatory basis to Registrants and Registrars. > > > except if they apply for and get an "exception" as you pointed out earlier. > Dot-COM, .ORG and .NET are the public’s models for .BOOK, .APP and > .CLOUD. > .org and.net were originally limited to non-profits and network infrastructure bodies respectively. > People know that Verisign registers .COM to a wide variety of companies > and businesses. While computer.com is registered to a single entity, > monopolizing its use, the same is not true of the TLD itself. *Verisign > must operate .COM in a non-discriminatory way – to registrants and > registrars. That’s the essence of being a gTLD Registry. * > > > Thus, for the top level and based on our rules, the public expects > generic words such as “com,” “biz,” “book,” “app” and “cloud” to be run > as Registries in the truest sense of the world – as entities engaged in the > management, operation and security of the TLD -- committed to registering > domain names on a non-discriminatory basis to registrants and registrars > globally. That’s a promise set out in the rules. The public will expect > to find the normal array of competitors and innovators in New gTLDs, just > as within existing TLDs. > except for .cat, .museum and several others. My point is that there is a precedent, there are rules as you have pointed out, and the application of those rules will be where decisions are made. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel