[105602] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri Jun 27 15:41:44 2008
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:39:30 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <48646613.8020409@vaxination.ca>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:01:23AM -0400, Jean-Fran?ois Mezei wrote:
> Does anyone know how if the new gTLD system will still give some "veto"
> power to some people over some domain names that are morally objectable
> to some people ?
>
> I am not thinking of only .SEX but perhaps also .GOD .GAY .ALLAH .BI
> .CHRISTIAN .LESBIAN .MORMON .JEW .JEWISH .ISLAM etc.
.WOMEN-WITH-VISIBLE-FACES?
> For instance, in the USA "ABC" is the american broadcasting companies,
> but in australia, it is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
>
> 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.
Sure, which is why that's not what should be being *done* with GTLDs.
But engineering issues will be the very least of anyone's concern here.
Cheers,
-- jra
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