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> anyone who is going to be operating a registry really has the resources and expertise to manage this kind of thing

Broadly speaking, this only holds true for a limited number of large legacy gTLDs (e.g. .com, .net) and the largest ccTLDs.

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Not in practice, the reality is most of the new gTLD's went shopping for industry people - you have to, there are so many unique technical, regulatory, and industry specific items you just buy the expertise, trying to learn on the fly is a monumental task.

FYI, speaking of industry goings-on: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/donuts-collaborates-googles-ne...

I should clarify at this point that I am the author of original linked blog post.

Can we imagine new gTLD Entrepreneurs with a minimum technical knowlege to become their own back-end Registry AND Registry in round 2 of the ICANN new gTLD program?

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