[NA-Discuss] [At-Large] New gTLDs and e-mail

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

John and all,

  You would think that indeed new registries could do their own
due diligence.  But of course experience clearly shows that they
rarely do.  Ergo, diligence of users and perhaps the ALAC is
necessary.  Secondly, as ICANN doesn't do the oversight it
should do, especially given the fact that they can't even keep
track of their own Domain Names as was reported earlier this
past week, someone needs to either fill in the gaps in oversight,
or ICANN needs to step up much better than they have been doing
over the past 9+ years.

  I can't see that how much $$ a proposed registry puts up really
has anything what so ever to do with their creditability, after all any
drug dealer or cartel can back any proposal with $$ easy enough.
So your logic as far as price for a gTLD has little to do with doing
good due diligence.

John Levine wrote:

> > So, do I understand correctly that, because one obscure non-RFC compliant
> > e-mail address has been out there for a decade this is enough of a test to
> > guarantee, there will be no issues with the current market leading MUAs and
> > MTAs (and legacy ones) ?
>
> There will certainly be issues with MTAs and MUAs, since there are plenty
> of them that implicitly or explicitly assume that every domain name
> contains a dot.
>
> What we do know is that the existence of such addresses doesn't cause any
> global problems.  Why does this issue need the ALAC's limited time, rather
> than being just one more minor question for the purchasers of new TLDs to
> deal with?  If they'll be spending $100K or more on their new domain, I
> think it's reasonable to assume that they can do their own due diligence.
>
> R's,
> John
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