[138868] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Mon Mar 21 13:27:47 2011
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:27:00 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Stefan Fouant <sfouant@shortestpathfirst.net>
In-Reply-To: <004a01cbe7ec$338874b0$9a995e10$@net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3/21/11 10:19 AM, Stefan Fouant wrote:
> 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?
.biz/.info was 2001
> Stefan Fouant
>
>
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