[105563] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Fri Jun 27 08:23:01 2008
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:22:03 +0100
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>, "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080627120549.32616.qmail@simone.iecc.com>
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Well, at least the new TLDs will promote DNS-based cruft filtration. You can
already safely ignore anything with a .name, .biz, .info, .tv suffix, to
name just the worst. If only there was a way to get the cruft to move over
into the new ones...
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:05 PM, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
> >> Some people are going to get very rich over this.
> >
> >How do you know this? Judging by the past experience of TLDs
> >there will not be a rush of customers but there will be a rush
> >of people trying to make a buck.
>
> You might enjoy my blog entries about the .TRAVEL domain:
>
> http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/travelcroak.html
>
> http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/travelnotdead.html
>
> http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/traveldrain.html
>
> http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/travelstillnotdead.html
>
>
>
