[142082] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Jun 17 20:35:05 2011
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:33:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110617232951.14681.qmail@joyce.lan>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
> I happen to agree that adding vast numbers of new TLDs is a terrible
> idea more for administrative and social than technical reasons, but
> this is the first you've heard about it, you really haven't been
> paying attention.
John, yes, I've been paying attention to the TLD space since Chris Ambler
*first* put in his .web proposal -- what is that; 15 years now? 20?
This is the first I've heard of *the possibility of TLD registrars being
end-user internal/exclusive*.
People have made jokes about company TLDs in the past, sure, but no, I
never heard any specific discussion about it actually happening; I invite
citations.
Cheers,
-- jra
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