[128204] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams)
Mon Jul 26 14:42:27 2010
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:42:03 -0400
From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@nic-naa.net>
To: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin1ZnPfWYNZgcuRtU+08H-9Ns4GANtKg_aXFdvq@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7/26/10 12:45 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
> You forgot the fifth option.
>
> Invade a country (invasion is not strictly required) and take over
> control of their ccTLD which probably does not have an agreement with
> ICANN so you can charge and do as you please. Many of the greedy
> registrars will be more than happy to sell the name ...
Umm, I wish there had been more people who paid attention when the .iq
registry was subject to ... a voluntary change of control resulting in
... things being done as one pleased.
But I do take your point about .co/.com, and in all fairness, it is a
decade delayed favor returned by NeuStar to Verisign for the .bz/.biz
"collaborative marketing" ploy of 2001.
When Hewlett-Packard wrote to ICANN earlier this year that it should
get .hp, the obvious rejoinder was "Buy a country like everyone else,
submit a change request to the iso3166/MA, and do business under .hp,
your new country code property." Apparently HP didn't want to actually
buy a country first. Cheapskates.
Now seriously, just how many pages of the IV Initial Report did you
read before coming up with "the fifth option"?
Eric
