[105504] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jun 26 19:18:06 2008
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@verneglobal.com>
In-Reply-To: <BF08482709F8B24484F80A48DE20BEF3707B82@agusto.kerfisleiga.is>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:17:45 -0700
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Jun 26, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:
>
>
>> 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:
>
> 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.
>
> -M<
>
>
Whether some choose to do that or not, I believe that the point is that:
1. Nobody is FORCING them to do so.
2. Most are _NOT_ doing so.
3. It is somewhat anti-social to do so, but, that has rarely been a
constraint on corporate greed, especially amongst the Intelectual
Property crowd.
Owen
