Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com> [2016-04-26 16:06:16 +0200]:
relying on expensive court cases that might swing either way. But blaming ICANN for the fact that the majority of the Domain Name industry is located in the US is unfair. This is a free market world and the new gTLD process could have brought a myriad of applications from outside the US. But it did not. Is this really ICANN's fault?
In part, yes. Please look at the comments that CIS and other submitted to this: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/dns-underserved-2014-05-14-en Some requirements imposed by ICANN have no relevance in a country like India or Egypt. Where must arbitration under registry contracts with ICANN happen? Los Angeles County. Which is the exclusive venue for contractual litigation against ICANN by registries? . Los Angeles County. Surely you're not arguing that it is "natural" that U.S. companies continue to dominate in this area and that ICANN policy has nothing to do with it? Do you think the .com contract will ever be opened up for competitive bidding? -- Pranesh Prakash Policy Director, Centre for Internet and Society http://cis-india.org | tel:+91 80 40926283 sip:pranesh@ostel.co | xmpp:pranesh@cis-india.org https://twitter.com/pranesh