It is actually too sad that we cannot get out the ploutotechnocratical current ICANN spirit. The DNS is NOT a business. ALAC should be here to best advise ICANN, not to make it believe it is the only solution in town when it is the leading erroneous one. jfc At 04:09 12/01/2009, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
Bret Fausett wrote:
The idea that there are tiny language groups hanging around saying "oh, if only we had a TLD then we would do all sorts of Internet stuff" is rather implausible.
I'm not sure what you mean by "tiny language groups," but I had in mind languages like Chinese. I think John was referring to most of the entries at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cym#Language_and_community
In Paris I attended a reception staged by proponents of .bzh , and at the gala of the Cairo meeting I shared a table with the delegation pushing for .cym -- the points of view of both groups of TLD advocates were astoundingly similar.
Most non-Europeans would have to look them up to even know that .cym is for Welsh language culture and .bzh is for the Brittany area of France.
At 10:37 12/01/2009, Adam Peake wrote:
It's not our job to pre-judge business plans.
I almost wish that there was a single TLD, let's say ".nation" for instance, under which all of these could be placed.... maybe then there would be enough volume to sustain a stable TLD and reasonably priced domains.
So people who want to develop Welsh language content will find a home at the second level under the English word "nation". I'm sure you can see the attraction in that... But perhaps your right, find the cash and put in an application, but don't write a business plan that limit the rights of others to innovate.
At 12:10 12/01/2009, John Levine wrote:
And in dismissing them he's serious, or attempting to write a gag for Saturday Night Live as the Ugly American? If serious then how sad, small minded and dumb.
Sigh. If you're going to insult me, could you at least spend a few seconds reading what I wrote before doing so? It's truly sad if the best we can do here is closed-minded sniping.