Commentary Advocating Auction of Top Level Domains

An Economic Analysis of Domain Name Policy, by Karl M. Manheim and Lawrence B. Solum.

  • From the abstract: “Based on the telecommunications experience, the best method for ICANN to allocate new Top Level Domains would be to conduct an auction. Many auction designs are possible. One proposal is to auction a fixed number of new Top Level Domain slots each year. This proposal would both expand the root resource at a reasonable pace and insure that the slots went to their highest and best use. Public interest Top Level Domains could be allocated by another mechanism such as a lottery and their costs to ICANN could be subsidized by the proceeds of the auction.”
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