[kictanet] new gTLDs. A very American revolution

[Ali Hussein]

McTim

Money alone may not explain the motivation of a large number of these
applications. Quite a substantial number of them were about two key things:-

1. Brand Protection. So Google going for .google is about just that.
2. Category Protection or close affinity to it and wanting to be associated
with it. For example .app had one of the highest applicants. From Google to
Amazon to some of the largest domain registrars.

It would be interesting to watch some of these auctions and the domination
fights attached to them.

Ali Hussein




On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:32 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:31 AM,  <alice at apc.org> wrote:
> > As mentioned earlier, of the 1,930 applications, 844 are from the United
> > States.
> > Africa only has 17 applications.
>
> To me, this means that Africans are smarter than Americans.
>
> The vast majority of those 844 US applications will lose money in the long
> run.
>
> 17 is a much bigger number than I had expected.
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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