[139078] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Sat Mar 26 16:56:00 2011
In-Reply-To: <004a01cbe7ec$338874b0$9a995e10$@net>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:55:32 -0400
To: Stefan Fouant <sfouant@shortestpathfirst.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Stefan Fouant
<sfouant@shortestpathfirst.net> wrote:
> 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. =A0When will sanity prevail?
If the creation of .xxx is a preliminary step in making the fact of
your web site only being accessible by a name ending in .xxx an
affirmative defense against a charge of allowing minors to access your
site then
a) it's not pointless, and
b) sanity is prevailing.
IF. But then, it has to start somewhere.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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