[105540] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Fri Jun 27 00:28:39 2008
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Mezei?= <jfmezei@vaxination.ca>
In-Reply-To: <48646613.8020409@vaxination.ca>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:28:30 -0700
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Jun 26, 2008, at 9:01 PM, Jean-Fran=E7ois Mezei wrote:
> Does anyone know how if the new gTLD system will still give some =20
> "veto"
> power to some people over some domain names that are morally =20
> objectable
> to some people ?
See pages 17 - 20 of =
https://par.icann.org/files/paris/gTLDUpdateParis-23jun08.pdf
> Is it fair to hand .ABC to either one of the two ? (highest bidder) or
> will ICANN "lock" .ABC out so that neither can get to it ? I am sure
> there are many such gTLDs around the world that would conflict across
> countries.
See pages 22 - 25 of =
https://par.icann.org/files/paris/gTLDUpdateParis-23jun08.pdf
> Finally, will there be any performance impact on DNS servers around =20=
> the
> world (thinking of caching issues) ?
Extremely unlikely (IMHO).
Regards,
-drc
