[At-Large] [lac-discuss-en] Vistaprint is abandoning .vista

Alan Greenberg alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca
Wed Jul 11 14:47:53 UTC 2018


Yes. Was just answering Olivier's question.

Alan
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On July 11, 2018 10:28:38 AM EDT, Michele Neylon - Blacknight <michele at blacknight.com> wrote:
>That’s a tiny amount of money for a Fortune 500 etc
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>From: Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>
>Date: Wednesday 11 July 2018 at 15:27
>To: Olivier Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>, Michele Neylon
><michele at blacknight.com>, Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels at gmail.com>,
>At-Large Worldwide <at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org>,
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>Subject: Re: [lac-discuss-en] [At-Large] Vistaprint is abandoning
>.vista
>
>Over and above anything else, there is the $25k annual registry fee
>plus whatever their registry operator is charging them.
>
>Alan
>
>At 11/07/2018 09:42 AM, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond wrote:
>
>
>Dear Michele,
>
>I wonder why they are dropping it. Does it cost them more in the long
>run, than using several composed domains?
>Kindest regards,
>
>Olivier
>
>On 11/07/2018 10:27, Michele Neylon - Blacknight wrote:
>
>Carlton
>
>It’s a .brand – zero “normal” registrants or users will be
>impacted
>
>If it was a TLD with actual registrations then it would be a totally
>different matter, but it isn’t.
>
>Regards
>
>Michele
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>Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090
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>on behalf of Carlton Samuels
><carlton.samuels at gmail.com><mailto:carlton.samuels at gmail.com>
>Date: Tuesday 10 July 2018 at 21:10
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>Subject: [At-Large] Vistaprint is abandoning .vista
>
>Maybe we should track these 'returns/abandonments' and in context,
>[re]read the recommendations of the Subsequent Procedures WG?
>
>Saw a story of a domain investor account of his return on investment so
>far; he's in the red with diminishing prospects.
>
>On top of these kind of stories that speak to the conditions in the end
>user market and the 'retired and/or abandoned gLTDs, it just seems
>'otherworldly' to me that in all the happy talk of new rounds, this
>idea that demand has something to do with markets is largely left
>unmentioned. Helluva thing!
>
>https://domainnamewire.com/2018/07/10/vistaprint-drops-vista-top-level-domain/
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>-Carlton
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