[105496] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Simpson)
Thu Jun 26 16:35:30 2008
From: Ken Simpson <ksimpson@mailchannels.com>
To: "Jim Popovitch" <yahoo@jimpop.com>
In-Reply-To: <7ff145960806261309u4eda28b7v8973556b983df63a@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:34:22 -0700
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> Two years ago I posed the question here about the need for TLDs
> (http://www.mcabee.org/lists/nanog/May-06/msg00110.html).
> I summerizsed that companies IP (Intellectual Property) guidelines
> would never allow domain.org to exist if they owned domain.com
> (ibm.org vrs ibm.com). I felt that TLDs really represented a
> monetary harvesting scheme as every new TLD forced companies to "pay
> for yet another domain name" (slowly milking businesses). At that
> time several knowledgeable folks commented that TLDs were necessary
> in the beginning due to the need to distribute queries. Now it
> seems, ICANN has decided to add a new paradigm :-) How will a TLD
> like .ibm be handled now, and how is this different than what I
> proposed in 2006?
How will ICANN be allocating these? An auction format? It will be a
blood bath otherwise.. And for abuse and spam, this is a nightmare.
