Evan, as a champion of the small guy, you oddly now find yourself aligned with the organization who wrote the CircleID piece, CALinnovates, a known astroturfer that was a shill for big tech against net neutrality (See for example; https://www.propublica.org/article/mysterious-campaign-appears-to-be-latest-salvo-in-net-neutrality-battle, and also see; https://www.google.com/search?q=calinnovates+astroturfer&oq=calinnovates+astroturfer&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160.6658j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
If you are against the right to sell domain names in the secondary market, it is incumbent upon you to explain how banning a competitive free market would work. As we explained in the presentation to NARALO, there is no way of doing it and it in fact shouldn’t be done.
NARALO presentation (starting at minute 10:00) - https://icann.zoom.us/rec/play/LfORcCZnTrbE0oMfgh2QMyEqqksEZtI_kgEmG9S4flgJitfbh-zpX964pnY62geXinoXsdUARCbjzH0x.2yWFWWXwQKS61a64?startTime=1607976067000&_x_zm_rtaid=wMPQjNhzREK_de3nXgz7vA.1607991589917.95835cca2d23933b56d2f01ff8d0a63e&_x_zm_rhtaid=343
Also, when protecting small businesses, some attention should surely be given to the one area where domain name prices are objectively inflated, namely the primary market where the registry operator overcharges registrants around the world cumulatively around $1 billion per year.
Regards,
Nat
------More grist for the mill -- why and how domaining hurts small business and entrepreneurs, and how it extracts value rather than adds: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20210210-now-we-know-why-its-hard-to-get-a-com/All you domain speculators who fancy yourselves marketing experts and are camped out in NARALO because, I would guess, no other constituency will have you .... your turn. I see that some have already posted lame rebuttals on CircleID, read them and have a chuckle. (It's still noteworthy that nobody I know in ICANN-land defends the practice except those with direct financial interest in it.)(And thank you to the kind NARALO member who found the article, figuring that I might have more fun posting it here than they would. You're probably right.)Disclosure: I have never accepted money from AT&T or any other telco or ISP for that matter. My shitty mobile provider won't even give me a decent discount, but the others are no better. I did win a T-shirt a few years ago from SiriusXM, does that count?Cheers,Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada@evanleibovitch / @el56
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