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I'm not sure where I stand on this. You may very well be right.<br>
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Even though, I'm still thinking: would we grant a registry
application if the applicant would say : "for the market price of a
domain in a competing TLD, all our clients will have to use our
platforms, hosting, etc ... . If not, we will charge them 25 times
as much. That's how good the TLD semantics is, and also we bank on
the fact that it takes forever for you guys to approve anything else
that we think can compete".<br>
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Like I said, I'm not sure where I stand. I will probably wake up
tomorrow and think you are right.<br>
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Nicolas<br>
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<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>
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<div>Thanks.</div>
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<div>On Mar 30, 2015, at 6:00 PM, Nicolas Adam <<a
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> 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>Hi Sam,</div>
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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
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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
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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
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href="http://www.everything.sucks/">http://www.everything.sucks</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>returns a
blank page.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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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
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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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