Dear Milton, GNSO Council Members, In continuing with "corporate memory", let me keep the ccTLD record straight. The pieces of memory I have from time new ccTLD were put live indicates - no surprise - that the number of domain names created by new ccTLDs were very slow in those years, and that it has strictly nothing to do with today gTLDs. The audatious ccTLDs, almost all not for profit, were foreseeing 100 domain names recorded the first year, and perhaps 500 in two years. I do not know much about initial business plans of 7 new gTLDs from November 2000: .info, .biz, .museum, .aero, .pro, .coop, .name but I guess those were based on more than 100 domain names per annum. Kind regards, Elisabeth Porteneuve ccTLD liaison to GNSO --

From: "Milton Mueller" <Mueller@syr.edu> To: <Amadeu@abril.info>, <Jeff.Neuman@Neustar.us> Cc: <council@dnso.org> Subject: Re: [council] gTLD registries' paper on new TLds

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Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr> 1990 11 47 1991 22 69 1992 17 86 1993 23 109 1994 22 131 1995 29 160 1996 31 191 1997 47 238

Gosh, I hope adding all those TLDs didn't harm the Internet's stability! I sure hope that New TLD Evaluation and Planning Task Force takes a long, hard look at the effects of adding those country codes.

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