[NA-Discuss] Pre-registrations

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

I guess I do not understand why they are harmful in and of themselves.

Certainly if they are false advertising in any way, that is an issue.  But if they are an investment method or come with a money-back guarantee, I do not understand the public harm as long as they are sold with an appropriate description.

a.



On 6 Jun 2011, at 13:10, Beau Brendler wrote:

> Eric B-W wrote:
> 
> "offers of "pre-registration" by non-parties to registry
> application projects are contrary to the public interest, and may harm the
> targeted registry application projects, for which they have private redress."
> 
> After three years in ALAC, I don't recall this topic coming up, or the ALAC making a statement on it.
> 
> I would support drafting a statement that pre-registrations in this mode are contrary to public interest -- though as chair I don't want to step forward and do that without some discussion and consensus.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ebw at abenaki.wabanaki.net
>> Sent: Jun 6, 2011 9:50 AM
>> To: dannyyounger at yahoo.com
>> Cc: na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org
>> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Pre-registrations
>> 
>> Danny, 
>> 
>> I do not know if the ALAC offered advice to the Board on the subject at
>> some prior point in time.
>> 
>> Similarly, I do not know if the ALAC has offered advice to the FTC or any
>> other agency of a political jurisdiction on the subject at some prior point
>> in time.
>> 
>> If so, then I suppose that the ALAC advice can be checked for currency and
>> either updated and referenced, or if current, simply referenced again.
>> 
>> Application projects like the 2004 Catalan project, or the 2000 Cooperatives
>> project, should engage in communications to their prospective communities,
>> as the default, the current situation, and still a problem for cooperatives,
>> is that no practical alternative exists to Verisign's for-profit "com" label.
>> 
>> How close pre-application communications offering pre-service information,
>> and of necessity, to meet the ICANN direct fee and additional costs which
>> are identified in the current DAG, also solliciting participation, whether
>> unconditional, or in exchange for some current value, or expectation, can
>> come to "pre-registration" of a hypothetical, I can't speculate upon.
>> 
>> The United Domains campaign is clearly not an instance of a single application
>> project, or a cooperating group such as ECLID (Scotland, Wales, Brittany,
>> Galacia, and the Autonomous Basque Region) communicating to their respective
>> communities.
>> 
>> I'm not optimistic concerning ICANN's current CEO instructing staff counsel
>> to make a determination that "pre-registration" volates the current registrar
>> contract, but I think offers of "pre-registration" by non-parties to registry
>> application projects are contrary to the public interest, and may harm the
>> targeted registry application projects, for which they have private redress.
>> 
>> Eric
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