[105519] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TJ)
Thu Jun 26 20:48:26 2008
From: "TJ" <trejrco@gmail.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <200806262259.XAA10700@sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:48:08 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Ah, but some are ... for trademark or brand protection usually.
I know _one_ company that paid $140k just for domain names related to a
rebranding effort.
/TJ
-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Butterworth [mailto:brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:59 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
> And no, companies *aren't* "forced to pay for another domain name"
> just because a new TLD appears -- they aren't doing it *now*
