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Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Shultz)
Thu Jun 26 20:13:48 2008

Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:56:14 -0700
From: Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <AC7AF8F3-7D04-4A89-9E8A-A98E2ACB48EF@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

Owen DeLong wrote:

> 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
> 
> 

On that note, it will be very interesting to see who manages to register 
the *.sucks TLD, and what they do with it.

-- 
Jeff Shultz


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