[105503] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Thu Jun 26 19:11:56 2008
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:07:57 -0000
From: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@verneglobal.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
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>And no, companies *aren't* "forced to pay for another domain name" just
>because a new TLD appears -- they aren't doing it *now*, by and large,
>and thank ghod:=20
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The last time I looked there were a few thousand companies protecting =
their intellectual property by using companies like Mark Monitor to =
insure that they had defensive registrations in all ccTLD's possible.
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