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

[Garth Bruen]

Yeah, but Google doesn't run it ;-)



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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-tr
> ade-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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