Abuse of ccTLD powers

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From: mueller <mueller at syr.edu>
To: apple at apnic.net <apple at apnic.net>; anr-talk at anr.org <anr-talk at anr.org>
Date: Sunday, August 02, 1998 11:34 AM
Subject: Abuse of ccTLD powers


>Apple members:
>If you read the following news article, you will see how control of a
>ccTLD can be abused for economic reasons. This is why many of us coming
>out of Geneva are concerned about the efforts of ccTLD registrars to
>organize themselves as a political bloc. I hope any apple member who is
>interested in maintaining a free and open Internet will attend the
>Singapore meeting with this in mind. I also hope that the Asia Pacific
>Internet Association members who are part of the IFWP steering committee
>will make it clear that they oppose such absuses, otherwise they may
>begin to lose the trust of the international community.
>--MM
>
>http://www.sjmercury.com/asia/center/japan080198.htm
>
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Milton,

This is not the only ccTLD with such practices.
Jon Postel's IANA has allowed people to obtain
top level domains and claim they have the
support of the government. When challenged,
they claim they have the support of the people.
When really challenged, they claim to have the
support of ISPs. In some cases, they are that
ISP. In other words, they endorse themselves.

This is one of the reasons why experts in this
area have concluded that TLDs should be TLDs
because there is no way to clean up the existing
mess and little benefit in doing it. The general
public needs to be better educated about the
fraud and corruption in ccTLDs. In some areas
of the world, this is done and their solution is
to send everyone to .COM. That is one of the
reasons why it is so crowded.


Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com






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