[At-Large] my submissions to new gTLD statement

[Patrick Vande Walle]

Danny Younger wrote, On 8/1/09 15:36:
> Re:  "By asking to suspend the process, we risk killing innovation and we play the game of the incumbents."
>
> Patrick, as you have been spearheading the launch of the .sport TLD, your views are necessarily tainted with a conflict of interest. 
>   
My "conflict of interest", as you say, is pretty limited right now. It
is worth no more than USD20/yr for a domain name.  I have been working
too long in this ICANN environment to know better.
> But we are not in the business of protecting potential TLD operators; we are in the business of acting in the public interest.  
>   
Indeed. As I mentioned earlier, more alternatives to the traditional
TLDs would be allow the customers more choice and more competition.
Delaying further would only help the incumbents maintain there market
share and prevent competition. From a strictly consumer-oriented point
of view, this is not my definition of a healthy marketplace.

Patrick

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