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["JP Blankert (Thuis PC)" <jpblankert AT zonnet.nl>]

It is interesting to think about philosphy behind TLD's.

I am Occupy-er as well, and I am worried so many people are shut out of 
the world. I was mass-layed off at 36, could not find a job, got 
depressed, organised things, started for myself on several topis, 
especially internet, and now (48) I do well with several companies.

I see internet as a way to orientate one self on the world - so that is 
why wikipedia is very good, regardless of your background you can 'get 
there', to the 'truth'.

What I also like about internet: whatever your background or age, you 
can participate and start a movement or company.

A lack of good domain names left, shuts out newcomers: younger 
people.....or elder people that got fired and are not taken on anymore 
(Netherlands: with 25 you have difficulties getting a job because of 
'nog experience', 28-30 years is ideal, 35 = old, getting a new job 
after 35 (on 1/4 of career!) is very hard) -> that is why I find that 
internet should offer a very low threshold for people to participate.

Social media improve things: a facebook page is for free and with good 
content and marketing you can make a living. But still, there should be 
enough TLD's for everyone.

THAT IS WHY I woud propate one, or more, internet authorities that are 
fairly easy in launching new extensions.

Registration of names to do nothing and just block exploitation and 
waiting to resell a name should be discouraged to the max I find

One complicating factor is that people are too eager to get a new 
extension, when I see the waiting rows for Icann, and people totally 
forget IDN. The most beautiful generic domain names are there for grabs, 
nobody buys.

SO the starting point should be: room for everybody, everybody should 
have chance to have a chair at the swimmingpool. But discourage people 
laying towels on chairs just to reserve them, but not using them and 
thus blocking other people.

Once there are enough TLD's so all who want can participate on the web 
(and not have to go to five-word-domain-names), people are free to 
choose what they want to do on the web. Profit maximalisation, of not 
for profit, or charity, or 'just making a normal living'.

TLD's are important because they rank wordwide, ccTLD's rank only within 
the country and language where you are. That is something what you 
cannot test in large USA but easily in Europe, cross the border from NL 
to BE to GE and Google rankings totally change as soon as 100 meters 
across the border. The amount of people prepared to accept 
non-motherlanguage English as main language increases, so I think more 
and more people when they go on the web, want to reach everybody in the 
world, based on a THEME. A minority wants to focus on a locality, like a 
geographic place or specific language.

A phantasy question: how many TLD's do we need so everybody in the world 
could have a web based business? Very rough calculation....an adult uses 
appr. a vocabulary of 2000 words. Let us assume that all must be in 
English and Latin script. Than 1 TLD gives room for 2000 
1-word-domainnames and 4 million 2-word domain names (2000 squared; I 
admit, not all random 2 word combinations make sense - more a very rough 
order of magintude estimation). Round it off, out of 8 billion people on 
earth, 4 billion want a web based business in latin script English, 
domain name max 2 current words. 4 million are provided by 1  TLD. So it 
means that 1.000 = thousand TLD's would satisfy all people on earth: 
every earner has 1 webbased business and 1 2 word TLD domain name. 
Currently, there are over 1.300 extensions worldwide....it is not too 
far away from the very rough 1000 I guessed. But of the 1300 only appr. 
20 are TLD's, the rest ccTLD's or even worse, subdomains (like kiev.ua). 
Of course some people register 1000 names and don't do anything with it, 
whilst others are too poor to buy a decent domain name and can therefore 
get no edge in the internetworld. Because some people are very greedy 
and occupate 'all te webground and do nothing with it' others are 
excluded from participating, and for those who are excluded, new TLD's 
would be nice....if they are not bulkwise registered first by the 
already richest people...

Sorry to bother you with phantasy, I let it sink in and come back 
another time with a compact statement.

Goodnight,
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Philippe Blankert - 12 nov 2012


> On 11/12/2012 04:08 PM, mike wrote:
> > This is why I am saying, why not move those kind of commercial leaning
> > activities into a second entity that's more geared toward doing
> > commercial activities, and just leave OpenNIC the way it is? Shielding
> > OpenNIC from the whole commercial liability issue all together.
> Perhaps I misunderstood.  The origin of this thread seemed to lean more
> toward operational funding than commercializing TLDs.  From the
> project's mission statement, it seems we aren't too keen on the
> production of revenue, but what, exactly, that means is unclear.
> Raising funds is an attempted to generate revenue, whether motivated by
> profit or not.
>
> > Until this is nailed down, I think it would be prudent that the
> > OpenNIC collective refrain from promoting the idea of contracting with
> > it's members for OpenNIC related services. I guess that's my core
> > point in all this.
> Given the unregistered status of OpenNIC, I would agree.  It's hard to
> do business with a business that isn't a business.
>
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