[142062] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zaid Ali)
Fri Jun 17 17:55:55 2011
From: Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DFBCAA7.6000800@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:53:54 -0700
To: Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Paul Graydon wrote:
> 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....
>>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> Paul
>=20
There has been a lot of work put into this. I suggest you start looking =
at the application guide book =
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/dag-en.htm
If folks have been debating about this for 10 years then you can be =
assured the concerns of a messy internet have been brought up.
Don't tell me folks will have an existential moment about IDN's and =
gTLD.
Zaid=
