ICANN Responds To gTLD Plan Comments

angry tapir writes "ICANN has delayed its plans to sell new generic top-level domains while responding to public comments about the controversial proposal. The organization has released a 154-page document detailing and analyzing the hundreds of comments (PDF) it has received about its gTLD plan. In response to several concerns brought up by the public and companies in the Internet industry, ICANN has moved out the projected timeline for taking applications for new gTLDs from September to December."

This "plan" only benefits registrars

[winkydink]

Further balkanization of gTLD's does nothing for the end user. It will be a great stream of new revenue for registrars though.

ICANN has become nothing more than a pawn of domain registrars. Read the meeting minutes and see for yourself.

I'm for it!

[Anonymous Coward]

I, for one, am for it. At the very least it will derail the slimy domain squatters that just sit on every-damn-word-in-the-dictionary-and-combination-thereof.com|net|org

And I don't want to hear the shit about companies protecting their brand name. It is just about impossible to give your company a name that has not already been used *somewhere* and/or registered as a domain name.

- Sick of it all

Re:blarg i am anonymous

[nine-times]

But how much of that is squatters, anyway? I know I've had many times where I've gone to register an domain name and it's been taken, but when I go to the sites under that domain, I find placeholder pages with ads.

Re:blarg i am anonymous

[Metasquares]

The .name TLD is still pretty unused (unless you have a very common name), and was created for exactly that purpose.

Damn the feedback, full speed ahead!

[damn_registrars]

So they took feedback, and then did what with it? They compiled (parts of) it into a PDF. Wow, I'm impressed. Now in response they have moved out the date by a few months; great.

I can't wait until some shady group in another country buys the .viagra and .software TLDs and self-administers the registrations within them as permitted by the ICANN plans. Once that happens we'll get spam from dirtcheap.viagra and superubercheap.software, which will be for domains that have no readable whois data and ICANN will just shrug their shoulders and say "talk to the registrar" (who themselves won't speak to us).

Thanks ICANN. I guess the assumption was right, you don't give a damn about feedback after all. As long as you can make a few more bucks on new registrar accreditations (whatever that will mean when you start selling new gTLDs) you're happy, right? And thats really all that matters on the internet.