[142059] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Graydon)
Fri Jun 17 17:44:47 2011
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:44:07 -1000
From: Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <FC582C1D-F044-4BA3-B636-54568D4C765B@virtualized.org>
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On 06/17/2011 11:33 AM, David Conrad wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>>>> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/17/202245/
>>> You just learned about this now?
>> In fact I did. I certainly haven't seen it mentioned on NANOG in the last 6
>> months or so; where should I have seen it?
> New TLDs have been discussed now for over a decade. Press (both technical and popular) on ICANN activities have ratcheted up significantly recently, particularly with the approval of .XXX (which was recently discussed here on NANOG: http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-March/034488.html). Not blaming/accusing, just surprised this would be a surprise. I guess I've been living in the layer9 cloud too long....
>
> Regards,
> -drc
I've seen the stuff about adding a few extra TLDs, like XXX. I haven't
seen any references until now of them considering doing it on a
commercial basis. I don't mind new TLDs, but company ones are crazy
and going to lead to a confusing and messy internet.
Paul
