[105599] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora'sBox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Huff)
Fri Jun 27 15:35:13 2008
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:35:04 -0400
In-Reply-To: <171423de0806271223w5240f6f1s8005766773404ef5@mail.gmail.com>
From: "Matthew Huff" <mhuff@ox.com>
To: "Scott Francis" <darkuncle@gmail.com>,
<Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> that's exactly my point! it's _not_ reliable, but it's the behavior
> that the average user has come to expect. If we can't even guarantee
> reliability with the small handful of TLDs currently in use, when we
> start introducing arbitrary new ones to anybody that can pay, I'm
> concerned that it's going to make user support even more of a headache
> (for those of us unfortunate enough to be involved in that role,
> professionally or personally :))
> --
> darkuncle@{gmail.com,darkuncle.net} || 0x5537F527
> http://darkuncle.net/pubkey.asc for public key
It's amusing to see companies actually profit from this behavior. The =
poker gambling sites know they can't advertise on TV as a gambling site, =
so everyone of their ads mention *.net which is their play for free =
site. They know that a major of people will instead go to their *.com =
website which isn't a free site.
