[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Have a look at the ICANN blog and you'll see a post by ICANN Director of Media Affairs Brad White. The post is about a survey commissioned in England by a registrar called Gandi. The survey, carried out by The Future Laboratory, questioned 100 UK businesses about the new gTLDs. The result, as touted by the survey, is that "Two-thirds of the 100 UK businesses surveyed are still unaware that liberalisation (of the Internet) is happening."
Brad is clearly irked by this one-sided portrayal of the survey's results. "From my perspective, a number of reporters “buried the lead” when they reported on this new study (…) of 100 UK businesses surveyed, 81 percent say the gTLD expansion will be innovative, and 75 percent say it will be advantageous," he writes on the ICANN Blog.
While Brad's ire is understandable, he should not be surprised by the survey results. I know Gandi boss Stephan Ramoin and I think he's done great things with Gandi since taking over the company a few years back. But he's always come across as being strongly anti new gTLDs. So I would not expect a survey commissioned by the company he runs to be anything but negative about them.[/FONT]
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Brad is clearly irked by this one-sided portrayal of the survey's results. "From my perspective, a number of reporters “buried the lead” when they reported on this new study (…) of 100 UK businesses surveyed, 81 percent say the gTLD expansion will be innovative, and 75 percent say it will be advantageous," he writes on the ICANN Blog.
While Brad's ire is understandable, he should not be surprised by the survey results. I know Gandi boss Stephan Ramoin and I think he's done great things with Gandi since taking over the company a few years back. But he's always come across as being strongly anti new gTLDs. So I would not expect a survey commissioned by the company he runs to be anything but negative about them.[/FONT]
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