[128206] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Mon Jul 26 16:05:38 2010
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:04:55 -0400
To: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@nic-naa.net>
In-Reply-To: <4C4DD6FB.2040303@nic-naa.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On July 26, 2010 at 14:42 brunner@nic-naa.net (Eric Brunner-Williams) wrote:
>
> 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.
HP doesn't even have HP as a stock symbol, that'd be Helmerich &
Payne, a contract oil/gas driller. The computer company can be traded
under symbol HPC.
"Happy name spaces are all alike; every unhappy name space is unhappy
in its own way." -- !Tolstoy
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