JFC Morfin wrote:
This demonstrates what @large people engaged in this business and in DNS community testing know for years: Registries should be non profit organisations and the Registrants should be their members. Low management costs and new services.
Verisign is a successful and purely commercial operation. So is Afilias. The failure is not linked to the fact that it was a commercial company. IMHO, the main issue is that the ".travel" string is only meaningful for English speakers, or about 30% of the current Internet users. I cannot see why German, Spanish or French speakers would use such a domain.
PS. By the way how many people on this ALAC list has ever technical managed DNS zone files and operated a nameserver ? I would be curiouis to know also how many people among the GNSO and BoD?
FWIW, I do. -- Patrick Vande Walle Check my blog: http://patrick.vande-walle.eu