[142064] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Jun 17 18:00:45 2011
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:59:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <FC582C1D-F044-4BA3-B636-54568D4C765B@virtualized.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Conrad" <drc@virtualized.org>
> 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....
FFS, David. I didn't say "new gTLDs". I said, rather specifically,
"commercial gTLDs", IE: gTLDs *proprietary to a specific commercial
enterprise*. http:///www.apple
And no, I had not heard *any noise* that anyone was seriously considering
this up until this announcement.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
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