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It seems to me that the sales potential under .doctor would perhaps
be *increased* by the move. <br>
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It would add legitimacy which could help sell the idea to MDs and
would presumably help migrate what sites exists under other gTLD
such as .com. It would also justify a price premium. <br>
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I'm not sure I would be opposed to it, if i were the applicant ...
well ... except to negotiate some other things on the side, of
course. It might be counter-intuitive at first, but i think that
moves to restrain and differentiate will succeed in extracting more
value in the end. Much of the commercial success of a new TLD would,
I would think, come from its ability to cater to certain people and
so, that should have been the applicants plan for the get go,
methinks. <br>
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(I *am* opposed to move, don't get me wrong). <br>
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Nicolas<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/03/2015 3:47 PM, Sam Lanfranco
wrote:<br>
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All,<br>
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Here is the “trail” on the reference to the following
statement...which leads back to ICANN.<br>
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“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Domain-name overseer ICANN
has decided that only one kind of doctor may be allowed online –
and that is a medical doctor</i>”. <br>
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It is in the article by Kieren McCarthy at <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/15/icann_doctors/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/15/icann_doctors/</a>
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Kieren cites a blog by Jon Nevett “<i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The .DOCTOR Quarantine</i>”
in <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150312_the_doctor_quarantine/">http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150312_the_doctor_quarantine/</a><o:p></o:p>
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On March 12th Jon Nevett writes: <i>"In an utterly surprising
move, ICANN staff and the Board's New gTLD Program Committee
("NGPC") recently informed the applicants for .DOCTOR that it
has singled out the gTLD as a test case for controlling content
and limiting speech on the Internet."<br>
<br>
</i>The following jpeg is from the March 12, 2015 pdf at:<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/reconsideration-request-15-3-brice-trail-llc-redacted-12mar15-en.pdf">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/reconsideration-request-15-3-brice-trail-llc-redacted-12mar15-en.pdf</a><br>
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<img src="cid:part4.09060409.05060606@gmail.com" alt=""
height="635" width="949"><br>
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