On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Edmon Chung <edmon@registry.asia> wrote:
I sympathize very much with the sentiment. Not only is ICANN "auctioning off "baby"", it has essentially decided that required policies for ".baby" is no different than ".shop"... The registry can make it a free for all, and not even really be required to respect the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Personally, I think that is wrong.
If i may ask, what is wrong about that? i mean how is the right of a child not respected through a simple name string? I can understand referring to rights in relation to geographic strings but i don't understand the rationale behind the example sighted above Regards
Edmon
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It really hurts deeply to my public and political convictions when a generic term of language like 'baby' is auctioned off to the highest bidder for a certain, extremely important, exclusive use. What public interest has been served here? Is there anyone to ask this question? And I direct this question specifically to that part of the civil society which the rest of the world would trust should be asking the questions in the ICANN's context.
Any trademark authority would have rejected out of hand if Johnson and Johnson had sought 'baby' as a trademark for itself. The reasons are obvious. But those reasons do not mean anything to ICANN, and perhaps neither to civil society groups associated with ICANN.
But the trademark authorities are expressly public interest bodies, under public authorities, which are in turn subject to institutionalised public oversight and accountability.
ICANN on the other hand is a system captured by a group of people, who have developed the perfect means and system to keep all those close by and powerful happy in different ways - it uses the euphemism 'stakeholders' for them.
Most of all, it keeps the big daddy, the US happy, by employing various means to support its reign over theglobalInternet - it keeps a boisterous IG circuit in play that supports the status quo, and drowns out every other voice. This has been done very effectively till now. Btw, which technical governance mandate ICANN was pursuing to propose and set up the World Economic Forum based new Net Mundial Initiative, which is simply a way to divert global demands for addressing pressing Internet related public policy issues. This is done directly to appease US government's political interest, which ICANN has no business to be doing.. And then it keep the domain name industry happy and prospering, and also other major industries.... This group of people, which goes in the name of ICANN, does all this using the enormous funds that it illegally collects as a tax from global public using the Internet. This is where the money goes, and it produces conditions for further extraction.
It is a sorry state.
parminder
On Thursday 18 December 2014 11:18 AM, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
How long that will continue/last will be a question to answer in near future.
Cheers!
sent from Google nexus 4 kindly excuse brevity and typos. On 18 Dec 2014 02:02, "Carlton Samuels" <carlton.samuels@gmail.com> wrote:
The money pile grows...
-Carlton
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https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-12-17-en ------------------------------ Results Available for 17 December 2014 New gTLD Program Auction
17 December 2014
On 17 December 2014, Power Auctions LLC <http://www.powerauctions.com/>, ICANN's authorized auction service provider, conducted a New gTLD Program Auction to resolve string contention for two new generic top-level domain (gTLD) strings: .BABY and .MLS. Applicants for these strings were unable to resolve contention among themselves; thus their contention sets proceeded to auction, which is the method of last resort to resolve string contention as prescribed in Module 4 of the New gTLD Program Applicant Guidebook <http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb>. Subject to payment of the winning price and meeting all other criteria for eligibility, the winner will enter ICANN's contracting process to sign a Registry Agreement to operate the respective gTLD.
Six applicants participated in the auction for .BABY. Johnson & Johnson Services Inc. prevailed with a winning price of $3,088,888.
Two applicants participated in the auction for MLS. The Canadian Real Estate Association prevailed with a winning price of $3,359,000.
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