gTLD Delays Imminent
The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) has asked ICANN to postpone a decision on the “Expressions of Interest” (EOI) process for new gTLDs until after the ICANN Nairobi Meeting, which begins on March 7, 2010.
The news was first reported by DomainNameWire, which cited a letter in which the GAC Chairman Janis Karklins said that the period of community feedback was too brief. The draft EOI for the new gTLDs was in fact available since December 18, 2009 (link here).
The EOI process also came under heavy fire by Michael D. Palage (article here), in particular for “allow[ing] gTLD slots to be transferred [which] will create an artificial market where ‘insiders’ with deep pockets will be able to make a ‘quick buck’–just as has happened with ‘domain name tasting’ and other anomalies in artificial DNS markets created by ICANN . . . ICANN needs to engage the global Internet community and the GAC on the specifics of this important public policy issue to explain its costs and benefits.”
While some domainers such as Greg McNair were not excited about new gTLDs to begin with (here), the possibility and implications of IDN gTLDs has electrified the IDN industry for a while and these potential delays are disappointing.
Update: There is a nice thread on this here.
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These delays will not necessarily effect the anticipated idn.idn gtld’s.
It is possible we will see a limited number of IDN gTLD’s prior and regardless to any new gTLD’s referred to above.
To prevent unfair advantage i think Cyrillic and Arabic are a couple of languages that we may see prior to any policy finalization.
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The company releasing the EOI may have a high level understanding of their business problem or requirements, or type of product they require, but they are unsure of the market’s ability or desire to meet their need.
Calls for Expression of Interest (EOI) are used mainly when the requesting company does not have a solid idea on the type of product or service required. The company releasing the EOI may have a high level understanding of their business problem or requirements, or type of product they require, but they are unsure of the market’s ability or desire to meet their need. T
If an EOI is made, due to the costs involved, many potential respondents may have second thoughts about submitting a response. However, the last point (6) mentioned above is the key issue needed to be balanced by prospective responders when determining when to respond. If a company doesn’t respond, there is the potential risk that they will not be able to enter into the RFP or RFT stage of the procurement process. This decision to respond can only be made by that company when weighing up the benefits and disadvantages.
Calls for Expression of Interest (EOI) are used mainly when the requesting company does not have a solid idea on the type of product or service required. The company releasing the EOI may have a high level understanding of their business problem or requirements, or type of product they require, but they are unsure of the market’s ability or desire to meet their need. The company releasing the EOI may need to collect some additional information before they are able to make some procurement decisions.
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