On 30 April 2013 22:33, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca> wrote:
The use of this part of the RA to avoid using registrars is, in my opinion, a red herring. It makes life easier and cheaper for an organization that plans to use all sub-domains itself, but it is not a requirement. Amazon could still own all sub-domains on its .book (as an example), and still pay some registrar a nominal amount per domain, and it would have to set up a cumbersome communications protocol to enact this. But it would not stop the closed usage.
Ahh ICANN..Where registrars can insert themselves in the domain creation process -- and the registry is forced to pay them off -- even when they're not needed at all. Your TLD can be closed so long as you pay the extorti^H^H^H^H^H^H^H appropriate fees. It's just one more shakedown to add to the list of many. - Evan