ICANN participation

It seems to be increasing difficult to participate in the ICANN meetings remotely.

I am wondering why there can't be an audio feed and chat room for all open meetings? And why are all audio feeds not archived? (Not everybody is in the same timezone so it is not always possible to listen to the audio feed real time.

Video feeds would be useful too I know they are bandwidth intensive but why not just archive them? Surely somebody could post them to Youtube even! (straight after the meeting)?

As an example of the problems take today's workshop -

Statement by the proper owner of the domain, "Make Use Of's GoDaddy hosting account was hacked earlier today and the domain name, makeuseof.com, was transferred by the hacker to another web hosting company based in Dubai. We have absolutely no idea how this was achieved but we are currently in full contact with GoDaddy's fraud department to get our legal property back. Obviously this is deeply embarrassing for us but we will not rest until the domain name is back in our possession. We have all worked too long and too hard to watch it all slip away like this.

How much longer do we need to wait until ICANN allows free domains?

# Unlimited Hosting Space
# Unlimited subdomains
# Unlimited Bandwidth Transfer
# Anonymous FTP Server

This is what some of the guys out there have to offer for less than 100$ a year.

I really must wonder why!
Why can't ICANN register a generic top level domain and allow users to obtain as many subdomains as they want?

It costs only 100$ a year and the internet could be free for all.

Take an example from yuwie and yahoo and co. They offer unlimited webspace and registration is fully automated.

Finally the cost of new gTLDs have announced, which is about US$185,000/- per application for 500 applicants.

Annual projected renewal fees for new gTLD registry is about US$75,000/-.

Its very high cost, last time it was US$50,000/- per application. I think only big organization will appear.

Are you disappointed?

Every other operation on the www uses this to verify who you are..
It would cut back on the phishing domain that are out there..

me

With new gTLDs just around the corner there has been much discussion over who is getting what extension.

What I would like to know is - Are you planning on launching your new gTLD by yourself or enlisting the help of industry consultants/management companies?

Matthew Diehl
www.tldmanagers.com

My best wishes to continue your non profit organisation.I am new to this website. I want more information about ICANN.

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Brook

Homes For Sale By Owner

lot of people are asking themselves what they would like to buy as a gTld,

we ve seen some talking about .directory, other for city name, but historically when we look at the current gTld, they are all abbreviation (.org organisation, .com commercial et .edu for education)

so why people would change their mind as they are used to this short extension.

IMHO, i think the (two ?) tree letters are going to be the hardest gtld to buy ... especially for this reason ... not only because they are scarce (rare).

How does one go about offering and protecting a new TLD? I have been sitting on an idea for a while and only this morning came upon your website.

It highly concerns me when domain registries controlling a certain TLD raise the wholesale prices they charge to registrars without consultation to domain registrants.

When this happens, all the registrars will need to pay more to the registry for every domain which they register or renew for a customer. They will in turn raise their prices to cover the additional cost to them. Transferring the domains to a different registrar will not help, as all the registrars for that TLD will be forced to raise prices as they all have to pay more to the registry.