Google suggests a domain industry trade association
http://www.netnames.com/blog/2013/01/google-suggest-domain-industry-trade-as... Outside of its thrice-yearly international meetings designed to bring all interested parties together, ICANN also holds smaller regional meetings targeted at the entities it has direct contracts with, the registrars and the registries. The first such meeting of 2013 started today in Amsterdam and NetNames is a participant. Just before the start of the official ICANN agenda, Google initiated a fascinating side discussion by backing the idea of a trade association for domain names. Amazingly, despite the fact that there are now upwards of 2.4 billion internet users and close to 250 million domain names serving as access points to the Web for those billions of users, there is no viable trade association for the domain name industry. So if this initiative focuses on enhancing the Internet user experience, it will no doubt be very welcome. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -
The domain industry has a trade association. It's called ICANN. On 24 January 2013 11:24, Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com> wrote:
http://www.netnames.com/blog/2013/01/google-suggest-domain-industry-trade-as...
Outside of its thrice-yearly international meetings designed to bring all interested parties together, ICANN also holds smaller regional meetings targeted at the entities it has direct contracts with, the registrars and the registries.
The first such meeting of 2013 started today in Amsterdam and NetNames is a participant. Just before the start of the official ICANN agenda, Google initiated a fascinating side discussion by backing the idea of a trade association for domain names.
Amazingly, despite the fact that there are now upwards of 2.4 billion internet users and close to 250 million domain names serving as access points to the Web for those billions of users, there is no viable trade association for the domain name industry. So if this initiative focuses on enhancing the Internet user experience, it will no doubt be very welcome. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - ------ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss
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-- Evan Leibovitch Toronto Canada Em: evan at telly dot org Sk: evanleibovitch Tw: el56
Yeah, but Google doesn't run it ;-) -----Original Message----- From: na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Evan Leibovitch Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:28 AM To: Joly MacFie Cc: NA Discuss Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Google suggests a domain industry trade association The domain industry has a trade association. It's called ICANN. On 24 January 2013 11:24, Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com> wrote:
http://www.netnames.com/blog/2013/01/google-suggest-domain-industry-tr ade-association/
Outside of its thrice-yearly international meetings designed to bring all interested parties together, ICANN also holds smaller regional meetings targeted at the entities it has direct contracts with, the registrars and the registries.
The first such meeting of 2013 started today in Amsterdam and NetNames is a participant. Just before the start of the official ICANN agenda, Google initiated a fascinating side discussion by backing the idea of a trade association for domain names.
Amazingly, despite the fact that there are now upwards of 2.4 billion internet users and close to 250 million domain names serving as access points to the Web for those billions of users, there is no viable trade association for the domain name industry. So if this initiative focuses on enhancing the Internet user experience, it will no doubt be
very welcome.
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a 501(c)(6) or other (501(c)(4) or (c)(5)) (US tax code sections), with no contractual relationship to the IANA Function Contract (US DoC) and no bylaws identified (as yet) structure. personally i don't see a regional or shared advice issue to the corporation board on the coordinated activities of contracted parties, so long as the coordination does not raise competition policy issues, and the activities are not in breach of contract, or contrary to Consensus Policy not yet included in contract, or raising a public policy issue. -e
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