On 12/10/2015 07:05 AM, John R. Levine wrote:
Havinng looked at about 1/3 of the applications, a lot of the new gTLDs had plans that can be summarized as create .FOOBAR TLD for the foobar community, get millions of registrations, PROFITS!!!
I agree with you. Profits are nice to have, even essential. And I agree further that many of the new TLDs have very little that differentiates them from .com/.net/.org/ etc. (we know that for technical reasons that we do want the DNS tree to spread wider near the top, but that's not relevant to this topic.) ICANN's rules have made real innovation in names very difficult, if not impossible. ICANN is like Henry Ford and his comment that his customers can order any color they want, as long as it is black. For example, consider this TLD offering that would be impossible under ICANN rules, but which in no way would violate any written and broadly practiced internet technical standard: http://cavebear.com/eweregistry/ --karl--