[142123] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Sat Jun 18 03:19:20 2011
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:18:53 -0500 (CDT)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <559C9BE3-9EF9-455B-AB6B-AC9A76E16553@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
> From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
>
> MacDonald's would likely get title to .macdonalds under the new rules,
> right?
>
> Well... Which MacDonald's?
>
> 1. The fast food chain
> 2. O.C. MacDonald's Plumbing Supply
> 3. MacDonald and Sons Paving Systems
> 4. MacDonald and Madison Supply Company
> 5. etc.
Easy to resolve (excuse the pun) _that_ one.
The _senior_ claimant to that domain would be Clan MacDonald, of Scotland.
Who gets 'apple'? Apple (the computer company), Apple (the record company)?
How about the 'fruit of the month' club?
Now, if you want a _hard_ problem, who gets to register 'YellowPages' ?
<*EVIL* grin>
