[142069] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zaid Ali)
Fri Jun 17 18:13:14 2011
From: Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com>
In-Reply-To: <A53E404D-EFF0-4B63-A5FF-DED24882ADDF@queuefull.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:06:05 -0700
To: Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote:
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> On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:21 PM, David Conrad wrote:
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>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>>> Aw, Jeezus.
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>>> No. Just, no.
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>>> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/17/202245/
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>> You just learned about this now?
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> On a related topic, the US DoJ recently wrote a letter suggesting that =
DNS registry/registrar vertical integration might not be a good idea =
(from an anti-trust perspective).
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> =
http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/strickling-to-dengate-thrush-16jun1=
1-en.pdf
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> Cheers,
> -Benson
And before that, a need for a comprehensive economic study =
http://forum.icann.org/lists/5gtld-guide/msg00013.html
See a pattern?
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