Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada Em: evan at telly dot org Sk: evanleibovitch Tw: el56 On 22 November 2011 11:52, Patrick Vande Walle <patrick@vande-walle.eu>wrote:
At USD 15 a year, anyone can buy domain names, even individuals. You can even get email hosting and a blog included at that price. Hence, there are no reason why the At-Large should not care about these individual Internet users.
The distinction is one of function, not price. The proportion of the Internet-using public that owns a domain is extremely small. You do not need to own a domain to participate on the Internet, to create or to consume.
If there was a ICANN constituency or AC representing the interests of individual domain names registrants, I would be most interested to know which one.
The Non-Commercial User Constituency (of GNSO) welcomes individual members and has an explicit mandate to represent registrants. You've been around ICANN long enough that I'm surprised you were not aware of this. - Evan