I can confirm this is a long held view. So I say again, you may not see a successful contradiction of fact. However, consider the role vanity could play as a useful explanation? In another context, an astute congressman from Texas once remarked that if you could not look a man in the eye, take his money, drink his liquour and 'consort' with his wife and still vote against him, you have no business being in Congress. Maybe just a tad in the outer band of the congressman's moral compass. But in my view one could have no right being a serious domainer if you couldn't sell one of them suckers....'em, I mean registrants, a memorable domain. Carlton ============================== *Carlton A Samuels* *Mobile: 876-818-1799Strategy, Process, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* ============================= On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 13:50, Evan Leibovitch via CPWG <cpwg@icann.org> wrote:

Anyone who hasn't yet conditioned themselves to tune out my previous posts should know my concern that the biggest threat to ICANN's memorable-domain house-of-cards is not from bullshit schemes like blockchain domains. The threat has been from Google and other search engines. Every time someone searches a word, or a brand, or a concept in a search engine, they're not using a domain. The whole DNS could be human-unreadable and single-TLD and most people wouldn't care.

I consider ICANN's greed-induced proliferation of "memorable" domains to be second generation technology of how people find things on the Internet. First-gen was the likes of Gopher, Yahoo and AltaVista. And third-generation are Bing and Google, moderately context and location aware, but a massive step up from using the DNS for search.

<https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-may-hurt-googles-ad-business-former-...> The fourth generation beckons <https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-may-hurt-googles-ad-business-former-...>. Be prepared <https://lifehacker.com/chatgpt-is-the-coolest-and-most-terrifying-new-tech-o...>. Or at least be aware <https://chat.openai.com>.

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