[142070] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Jun 17 18:15:34 2011
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:09:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Benson Schliesser" <bensons@queuefull.net>
> 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).
>
> http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/strickling-to-dengate-thrush-16jun11-en.pdf
Y'know, I thought I'd covered that point in my DNS NOI comments (now, lo,
14 years old:
http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1997-07/msg00156.html
but as it turns out, I had apparently confused "registrar" and "registry" --
not as mortal a sin then as it would be now -- so I can't actually point to
an answer to that question.
I do *have* an answer: yes; separating them is a good idea. I appeared to
have the opposite answer in those comments; I was miscalling a registry
a registrar, which is why it looked like that.
Cheers,
-- jra
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