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Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Soucy)
Mon Jun 20 12:37:46 2011

In-Reply-To: <30895183.604.1308344665298.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:36:26 -0400
From: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Technical issues aside (and there are many...)

How long before we see marketing campaigns urging people to only trust
".band" and that ".com" et. al. are "less secure".

With a $185,000 application fee this tends to really kill small
businesses and conditions the public to favor ecommerce with the
giants, not to mention a nice revenue boost for ICANN.

Would love to hear the dirt on backroom conversations that led to this
decision...

Hopefully there will be enough public outcry to reverse it... but I'm
not optimistic.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> Aw, Jeezus.
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> No. =A0Just, no.
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