[142127] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat Jun 18 04:46:16 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <201106180718.p5I7IrBe020792@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:43:00 -0700
To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 18, 2011, at 12:18 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
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>> Subject: Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
>> From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
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>> MacDonald's would likely get title to .macdonalds under the new =
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>> right?
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>> Well... Which MacDonald's?
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>> 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.
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> Easy to resolve (excuse the pun) _that_ one.
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> The _senior_ claimant to that domain would be Clan MacDonald, of =
Scotland.
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> Who gets 'apple'? Apple (the computer company), Apple (the record =
company)?
> How about the 'fruit of the month' club?
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> Now, if you want a _hard_ problem, who gets to register 'YellowPages' =
?
> <*EVIL* grin>
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That's easy... Oracle as the successor to Sun Microsystems. :p
Owen
