[At-Large] [AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN Establishes Forum on Allocation Methods for Single-letter and Single-digit Domain Names

[Bret Fausett]

On Oct 18, 2007, at 7:20 AM, Adam Peake wrote:
> Perhaps ICANN should auction off the rest of the ascii alphabet and
> use the cash

For the sake of argument, on what right would ICANN claim that money  
as its own? ICANN placed a restriction on single-letter TLDs once  
upon a time on the theory that the letters might be needed at some  
future time for expansion of the TLD space (i.e., that we might have,  
amazon.a.com, amazon.b.com, amazon.c.com, etc.). So if that need no  
longer exists, and the restriction can be removed, why do the auction  
profits go to ICANN and not the registry and registrar?

           -- Bret
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