Let consider .bank (incidentally applied for, I purchased the popcorn already)
That's a good example of the sorts of problems the new gTLD process creates. There are two applications, one from the Financial Services Roundtable, a trade association of large US banks, with the application fronted by ex-ICANN Craig Schwartz, and one from RadixRegistry which is existing registrar DirectI, fronted by Brijesh Harish Joshi (about whom I know nothing.) They both doubtless plan to carefully qualify applicants and require security standards, blah blah. But which one would you believe is more likely to continue to do so consistently over the next decade or two, even after the TLD misses its revenue forecasts by an order of magnitude? http://www.radixregistry.com/tlds/financial.php#dotbank Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly