<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Another perspective may be that .sucks is competing with a whole bunch of other gTLDs, right? They surely don’t have a monopoly on platforms for online criticism,do they? Just the use of their string.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Amr</div><br><div><div>On Mar 30, 2015, at 6:00 PM, Nicolas Adam <<a href="mailto:nickolas.adam@GMAIL.COM">nickolas.adam@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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If the registry and the platform are the same, then it means that
the registry uses its monopoly power over the string to have a
competitive advantage in a downstream market, which is bad. If 250$
is higher than market value for a regular domain, it also mean that
they are actively using their monopoly power over the string to
force ordinary user to use their platform. That is bad as well. In a
world where a .sucks competitor cannot readily spring about, these
are legitimate competition concerns.<br>
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Nicolas<br>
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<div>Thanks. I hadn’t seen this article. It does suggest that the
platform belongs to VOX Populi, but does not make it implicitly
clear (at least not to me). It could still be a platform that
VOX Populi has contracted with and is using. I’m also not so
sure that it would be terribly detrimental if it did own the
platform. Folks are always free to elect not to register a
domain under .sucks, aren’t they? :)</div>
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<div>Also not very concerned with how they define “individual”,
but that’s just me. I wouldn’t mind if this product is reserved
for actual individuals. This doesn’t mean that CS organisations
can’t register .sucks domain names, but just that they can’t use
this package. I would at least prefer that to ICANN dictating
the rules to Vox Populi on how they can sell to who, and for how
much.</div>
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<div>Thanks again.</div>
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<div>On Mar 30, 2015, at 5:17 PM, Sam Lanfranco <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:lanfran@yorku.ca">lanfran@yorku.ca</a>>
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Amr,<br>
The following article says that VOX Populi is owned by the
Ottawa based Momentous Corporation and that VOX Populi
also owns the everything.sucks consumer advocacy forum
platform. It appears that VOX Popular as a Registry had a
contract with itself as either a Registrar or a
Registrant.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p>As
of now there is no public information on the
everything.sucks consumer advocacy forum platform. One
concern from the not-for-profit and civil society
perspective is whether or not the VOX Populi definition of
"individual" includes not-for-profit and civil society
organizations, or is it restricted to individual meaning a
single person. Along with you, many are waiting for
further information. At the moment the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.everything.sucks/">http://www.everything.sucks</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>returns a blank
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://business.financialpost.com/2015/03/27/vox-populi-makes-waves-with-sale-of-edgy-dot-sucks-domain-name/">http://business.financialpost.com/2015/03/27/vox-populi-makes-waves-with-sale-of-edgy-dot-sucks-domain-name/<o:p></o:p></a><br>
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Sam L.<br>
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<div><small>Is the consumer advocacy platform
“everything.sucks” owned by VOX Populi? I wasn’t aware
of that. I thought they just said that they had
contracted with them. I may be wrong.</small></div>
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<div><small>I’d be interested to learn more about the
everything.sucks platform as more information becomes
available. But I wouldn’t jump to the conclusion that
it will be a particular concern for NFPs and CS until
this information is somehow provided.</small></div>
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<div><small>Thanks.</small></div>
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