Rui,
I was not targetting you, but wanted to prevent common assumptions in this whole case.
I somewhat agree with you but at the same time a ccTLD is not related to the sovereignty of a country. I think I heard it enough from the ICANN community, or is the thinking changing?
Also, there is contract law, in general the deals are sure not the best, but they are certainly not the worst and depending on what you signed you may be tied up for years to come, like when you give monopoly status for the next 20 years to telecommunication companies.
What disturb me the most in these cases, is that governments who had the ccTLD delegated to them, choose to sign contracts under American Law instead of their own country. Despite the fact that the USA is a nice place to do shopping (and other things), lawyers defending you are very expensive in the USA, and you have no control over American law.
Cheers
On 4/4/07, info@dnsportugal.com <info@dnsportugal.com
> wrote:Dear Frank
I was not trying to make any moral assumption here. My point was just that
this was pretty much like winning the lottery for these small Pacific
countries. I don't think why someone could now be complaining about the
dark side of it.
I do realize the financial impact of the domain name business for these
communities and that they might not have cut a great deal and that the real
winners were the companies running the registries.
Besides (and through) increased awareness and education ICANN, ISOC
and ITU should also help these people getting a better control over their
ccTLD.
After all if a inherited a business and hired someone to run it for me, i would
expect not only to have a fair share of the profit but also that it would be run
in an ethical way.
Rui Bebiano
On 4 Apr 2007 at 4:51, Franck Martin wrote:
>
> Well dot nu is a very very special case, but for the other countries, notably the most famous, like
> dot tv, I would strongly defend them the right to do money out of their ccTLD. Tuvalu is a country
> of 10,000 people on 9 atolls. The revenue from the dot TV is about 10 to 15% of their national
> budget. Their would be dire consequence if this revenue stream was finished.
>
> The problem in general with all the ccTLD in Pacific Islands, was that the governments and the
> people did not know anything about ccTLD and the Internet when contracts got signed. We need
> more awareness and education, a function that ICANN is trying to fulfill via ISOC educational
> program, but which is nothing in comparison to say ITU Internet workshops.
>
> On 4/4/07, info@dnsportugal.com <info@dnsportugal.com> wrote:
> I simpathized to your concerns.
>
> I will have to note though, that this is the downsize of the "quick money"
> some of those states made from relinquishing their control over their own
> ccTLDs.
>
> I think that they should also put pressure on their governments to review the
> policies under which domains are registered.
>
> Take this as an example: since "nu" is the Portuguese word for "naked" it
> would be appealling for a portuguese or bazilian adult webmaster to register
> verymaliciousname.nu and hosted in the US.
>
> This is, of course, not to say that the study is obvioulsly narrow-minded and
> has a poor choose of wording.
>
> Rui Bebiano
>
> On 3 Apr 2007 at 12:41, Franck Martin wrote:
>
> >
> > SUVA, FIJI ---- Leading Pacific ICT professionals have condemned recent reports that
> the region
> > is a major source of Internet porn and online threats.
> >
> > A number of members of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC)
> > expressed disappointment over poor standards of reporting by Michael Field in his article
> > "Pacific atolls host world's most dangerous websites", released last month by Fairfax
> Media, New
> > Zealand.
> >
> > The article was based on a recent study carried out by United States (US) Internet
> security
> > company, McAfee, which assessed and rated online safety risks of 265 countries' top-
> level
> > domains (TLDs), among others.
> >
> > "It is unfortunate that this important study has been so drastically misinterpreted and
> poorly
> > reported," says PICISOC Chair, Rajnesh Dhirendra Singh.
> >
> > "We are particularly concerned with repercussions such a story may have on the
> development of
> > ICTs in the region, and the international, regional and national perceptions of Internet
> use and
> > content delivery in the Pacific."
> >
> > [...]
> > For the full article:
> >
> http://www.islandsbusiness.com/news/index_dynamic/containerNameToReplace=MiddleMi
> ddle/f
> >ocusModuleID=130/focusContentID=8325/tableName=mediaRelease/overideSkinName=
> newsArt
> > icle-full.tpl
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