[142085] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Fri Jun 17 20:43:47 2011
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <22308707.634.1308357188484.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:43:11 -0700
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 17, 2011, at 5:33 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
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>> 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.
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> John, yes, I've been paying attention to the TLD space since Chris =
Ambler=20
> *first* put in his .web proposal -- what is that; 15 years now? 20?
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> This is the first I've heard of *the possibility of TLD registrars =
being
> end-user internal/exclusive*.
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> 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.
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/consultation-outreach-en.htm
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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