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[Comments-info-renewal-18mar19] Proposed Renewal of .info Registry Agreement
by InternetProject March 25, 2019

March 25, 2019

On November 6, 2001, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that it had chosen mta.info instead of mta.nyc.ny.us. The President of MTA argued that the domain name in.US was too long and difficult to remember. The .INFO was intended in 1997 when it was proposed by the IAHC, International Ad Hoc Committee, and was created in 2000, two years after ICANN was created. .INFO has paved the way for more flexible but also smarter naming policies, bringing meaning through the TLD. At the time, the registry was communicating with "Where the World goes for information". The lack of a framework for gTLD pricing policies has led to some disappointments, as evidenced by the reactions of registrars when Uniregistry significantly increased its prices on its extensions. Similarly, the « Dot Chinese Online » has increased its prices by 25 since 15 March 2019. The market is not ready for significant price fluctuations on underutilized TLDs. The .INFO, used by many companies and individuals, is also not ready for such developments. An entrepreneur who has registered his domain name cannot tomorrow see a multiplication per cent of the selling price of his .INFO. While Europe is implementing a charter of good practices for online platforms, the "Platform to business" project, it would be interesting to develop such a policy for ICANN's gTLDs in order to frame tariff increases in an assessment to be defined. -------------------------------------- Clément GENTY Doctorant | PhD Candidate www.genty.info École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers 151 bd de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris

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