<div dir="auto"><i>"<span style="font-family:arial;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">If GRS’ new strategy is effective, we’re almost certainly going to see the industry-wide overall number of active new gTLD domains tank over the next year or so, giving more ammunition to those who think the new gTLD program was a huge waste of effort." </span></i><div dir="auto"><font face="arial"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="arial"><span style="font-size:16px">The existing ammunition has</span></font><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial"> been more than enough to convince the rational. More of it is unlikely to convince those who see the entitlement to domain expansion as an act of faith. </span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">___________________<br>Evan Leibovitch, Toronto<br>@evanleibovitch/@el56</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 12, 2018 4:17 PM, "Carlton Samuels" <<a href="mailto:carlton.samuels@gmail.com">carlton.samuels@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Don't know if y'all seen this but seems the times they are<br>
a-changing...some more.  Trust but verify are the watch words.<br>
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Moving forward there are several changes being made with regard to the<br>
overall strategy of the portfolio of gTLDs, the main one being a change to<br>
a ‘quality over quantity’ ethos and focusing on working with our Registrar<br>
Partners to sharply reduce abuse and spam registrations.”<br>
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