[105718] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sun Jun 29 20:42:31 2008
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:42:07 +0200
In-Reply-To: <48640FC2.2000909@spaghetti.zurich.ibm.com> (Jeroen Massar's
message of "Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:53:06 +0200")
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
* Jeroen Massar:
> Some people are going to get very rich over this. I hope that they
> drown in the money just as the Internet will drown in all the crap
> TLD's, not even thinking of all the nice security issues which come
> along (home, mycomputer and .exe etc anyone ? :)
.exe abd .com are equivalent in this regard. Oops.
> Thank you people doing all the ICANN politics for destroying the
> Internet.
I don't really see how this is substantially different from .me, .mobi,
.cat or .eu. Basically, selling TLDs means that ICANN has some sort of
implied non-technical obligation of keeping them relatively scarce,
which is currently lacking AFAICT.
