[139092] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Sat Mar 26 21:43:09 2011
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0C9E2A73@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:41:25 -0400
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 26, 2011, at 5:28 PM, George Bonser wrote:
>> But do you really believe playboy are going to give up playboy.com? =20=
>=20
> They aren't going to give up Playboy.com but they are probably going =
to
> have to purchase playboy.xxx anyway.
>=20
> 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 and
> sullying the company's image. So it is an instant cash windfall for =
the
> domain registrars. =20
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> There was no reason why we needed this. =20
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But that is an excellent reason why someone would want it.
I was involved in the IETF NEWDOM WG way back in ~1996 and heard all of =
these arguments then. IMHO this was snake oil 15 years ago, and it is =
even
more snake oil now.=20
Regards
Marshall
>=20
>=20
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