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Nonsense.  First of all, nobody is going to care about a .vegas extension much like nobody cared about .la.  Maybe many years down the road these extensions will be used but that will certainly be well past the terms of the current elected officials.

Governments are not in a position of getting involved in commercial ventures because they are based on getting votes, not earning revenue.  When there is a revenue shortfall they just raise taxes and damage businesses even more.  These processes where the government gets involved almost always end up in some corrupt deal where political favors are passed around and the taxpayer is left holding the bag.  Nevada, like many US government, has a tremendous fiscal problem now and they should not wasting time and resourced on high-risk commercial ventures.  Now you have entrepreneurs trying to convince government officials to do something rather then seeking legitimate investors.  Why?  Because the only people to invest in such a scheme don’t have to put their own money on the line, they risk the taxpayer’s money.  Such a system is contrary to the free market system and has lead to the high deficits in Nevada. 

Revenues are created when businesses flourish and pay taxes, not by governments running commercial ventures and taking a cut.  We don't want to end up like these socialist countries in places like Europe where bureaucrats run everything and take everyone's money.  In that climate is to too expensive for small entrepreneurs to start businesses because of all the taxes and regulation.

They are already wasting resources debating this while they are in the midst of a financial crisis.  The issue is about government control of the system which would only lead to problems of political favors.  If anyone actually does want a domain under .vegas they need the right political connections, not a coherent business plan.  As you can see from the story, businesses need to convince City Council to vote a certain way to get what they want.

Being from New Jersey I have watched this sort of thing where the government, in about 40 years, has taken one of the most prosperous States and has turned it into a laughing stock as far as fiscal responsibility.  It is interesting that you bring up NY since it is actually worse than NJ in that respect.

I am sure you will just dismiss these comments and never provide a coherent answer.  This is common of many of the people on this board who are involved in these huge bureaucratic systems such as ICANN and the like.  They never have to answer to anyone, produce a business plan, or make a profit.  They just go around the world pontificating and spending other people's money ... and if those "other people" actually complain they are labeled as someone who is not "reasoned" and should be ignored.  Meanwhile, these elitists take one more step into driving everyone into bankruptcy.

You cannot answer any of the issues.  You want to attack my response by claiming it is not coherent and try to attack my standing.  I am a "taxpayer" for the so-called Internet governance but I assume you feel I am not entitled to an opinion because I am not a member of the chosen class of elitists involved in the process.

Governments do not create revenue or jobs.  When a government hires people they tax and transfer jobs from the public sector or they transfer jobs from one part of the public sector to another.  As for creating revenue, the only way they do that is to tax or print money.  .vegas is likely to create a debt for the taxpayers and divert government officials from managing the City.  Local governments should not even consider getting involved with these things because they fail more than often then being successful.  If they are successful at some point they are propped up well past the point of being successful and become a liability to the taxpayers.

I am familiar with CORE from years ago enough to know that if you have a domain in the CORE system you should get it out as soon as possible because CORE did not answer anyone when there is a problem with one of their registrars.  Some of the registrars used to lock domains and block transfers away.  I remebering having to waste my time trying to call someone in Europe who could not have cared less.

Right.  That is why there is a marketing campaign focused on elected officials who are not risking their personal funds.  I live in a small seahore town in NJ and they spend $5K per month to have a company run a Facebook page and make sure they moderate the comments.  An Internet guy in town tried to explain to them that they would never recoup the money but they did not listen and they are spending the money anyway because someone told them Facebook is important (or, more likely, one of the politicians has a relationship with the company getting the money).