[139086] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Sat Mar 26 17:50:04 2011
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:47:57 GMT
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> What bothers me is that most companies are now going to be forced to
> purchase .xxx domains simply to keep someone else from buying it
That's the norm for new tld and a part of the their owners business
plan. Probably most of their income given how little I see them used
directly.
> and sullying the company's image.
In this case which would sully our name more, registering bbc.xxx
ourselves or a 3rd party who is clearly not us once people see the
content?
brandon
