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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Fri Jun 27 12:07:20 2008

From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
To: Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <a2b2d0480806270522v3747f63dj78b0af81e72a92e9@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:07:11 -0400
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Jun 27, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Alexander Harrowell wrote:

> 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...

Hey, please don't ignore .tv. No cruft from me, at least.

Marshall

>
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>



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