[105529] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Williams)
Thu Jun 26 22:20:14 2008
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:20:00 -0600
From: Jason Williams <williamsjj@digitar.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <35D23E15-AD3A-49D1-BFE6-E2CE69F438D5@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, Martin Hannigan <hannigan@verneglobal.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
>> >=20
>> > You are welcome to ascribe it to whatever you want. I will note that
>> > very few Non-profit organizations engage in such behavior. Very
>> > few governments do so, either. In fact, absent a corporate profit
>> > motive, this behavior seems very rare.
>=20
> Given the level of customer service most governmental agencies and non-pr=
ofits
> provide, they=B9ve got a lot of other usability holes to fill first before =
they
> start worrying about their =B3clients=B2 going to the wrong website. Secondar=
ily,
> their clients going to the wrong location isn=B9t going to put them out of
> existence. So on the level that profit=3Dexistence I=B9d agree it=B9s definite=
ly
> profit motivated. But greed is pejorative term.
>=20
> -J
>=20
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