[142067] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Fri Jun 17 18:07:31 2011
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <4DFBCAA7.6000800@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:00:25 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 17, 2011, at 5:44 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.
Yeah, 'cause it's not messy & confusing already....
The Internet is a business, ICANN wants money (despite their non-profit =
status - check out how much the execs get paid).
Companies want $FOO. They get $FOO, because they PAY FOR THE INTERNET. =
Without them, we all don't have jobs.
As for calling ICANN stupid, thinking this will help fracture the 'Net, =
I think you are all confused. I think the NANOG community has become =
(OK, always was) a bit of an echo chamber. Trust me when I say we are =
the minority. Most people think very differently, and we better accept =
that if we hope to affect things outside our little group.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
