[NA-Discuss] Google suggests a domain industry trade association

[Evan Leibovitch]

The domain industry has a trade association. It's called ICANN.



On 24 January 2013 11:24, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.netnames.com/blog/2013/01/google-suggest-domain-industry-trade-association/
>
> Outside of its thrice-yearly international meetings designed to bring all
> interested parties together, ICANN also holds smaller regional meetings
> targeted at the entities it has direct contracts with, the registrars and
> the registries.
>
> The first such meeting of 2013 started today in Amsterdam and NetNames is a
> participant. Just before the start of the official ICANN agenda, Google
> initiated a fascinating side discussion by backing the idea of a trade
> association for domain names.
>
> Amazingly, despite the fact that there are now upwards of 2.4 billion
> internet users and close to 250 million domain names serving as access
> points to the Web for those billions of users, there is no viable trade
> association for the domain name industry. So if this initiative focuses on
> enhancing the Internet user experience, it will no doubt be very welcome.
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