[At-Large] DomainIncite : Is this why WhatsApp hates some TLDs but not others?

[Evan Leibovitch]

Roberto Gaetano wrote:

I am just saying that At-Large is not the right place where to raise the
> issue asking for solutions.
>

We are fully agreed that this is not At-Large's task to fix.
I *will*, however, advance that it is At-Large's task to *inform*. We have
an important but sadly neglected role to play in public education.

There are many issues related to domain names about which people may ask
but for which answers are either absent, partial or inaccurate. The most
obvious of these is explaining the difference between .co and .com -- that
is, how is a ccTLD operationally different from a gTLD. The differences can
be non-trivial to both domain consumers and end-users, and are complicated
by the way some ccTLDs are marketed by gTLDs. Over the years I have not
found an end-user perspective to this issue, only those which inform domain
investors.

"Why are there so many TLDs and why can't I access some of them?", today's
topic, is clearly another worthy of some treatment. And maybe someone
somewhere can explain the status of the .su TLD.

We all know that ALAC sits very low on the list of ICANN community parts
actually capable of affecting significant change. We're an expense to ICANN
rather than a source of revenue, and we lack the economic clout of domain
buyers and sellers or the political clout of the GAC.

That's not going to change any time soon (how's progress on that second
At-Large Board seat coming along?) but that's OK. There is still much that
we can do to inform end-users (that is, those who wish to be informed) with
answers to questions that nobody else seems to be answering, from a
perspective unlike any other within ICANN. After all, if we're going to
represent the interests of end-users, having them as informed as possible
is helpful.

- Evan
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