[162391] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called "Search"..?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Fri Apr 12 18:53:31 2013
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:53:11 -0700
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>, Oliver Garraux <oliver@g.garraux.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbVWWSr36pjw+LjDPRiGJFSfVivj6S4DvSWZdMi_7bpbkQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/12/13 3:41 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
> On 4/11/13, Oliver Garraux <oliver@g.garraux.net> wrote:
>
> Agreed; but it would seem that unstoppable forces have been set into
> motion by ICANN, to cause it to happen, regardless of whether it is
> beneficial to the community, and regardless of any objections from the
> public...
>
> Yes... let a single organization own http://search
> No intrinsic bias here... no unfairness, for a single organization to
> hold that name...
>
> Right...
Still riding high from their success with .mobi (disclaimer, I worked
for Nokia at the time, it was a bad idea then, it's still a bad idea)...
It's entirely plausible that you're overselling the value of a gtld a bit.
>> The whole custom TLD thing is just a truly awful, awful idea.
>>
>> Oliver
>>
>> -------------------------------------
> --
> -JH
>
