[138867] in North American Network Operators' Group
ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Fouant)
Mon Mar 21 13:20:37 2011
From: "Stefan Fouant" <sfouant@shortestpathfirst.net>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:19:50 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Surprised this was actually approved, but more so that this story seems to
have gone unnoticed on the list... I would have expected a lot more chatter
here -
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/icann-approves-xxx-red-light
-district-for-the-internet.ars
So the days of pointless TLDs are amongst us as we've now given would-be
registrars the right to print money and companies are forced to purchase
useless domain names in order to protect their trademarks, prevent
squatting, etc. When will sanity prevail?
Stefan Fouant
