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Re: As if to. weren't enough

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Tue Oct 6 16:57:18 1998

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:43:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810060329.UAA12592@ihnp4.FREDNET.NET>

On Mon, 5 Oct 1998 nanog@FREDNET.NET wrote:

> Look out -- if the .to TLD wasn't enough for you, then the next
> problem TLD could end it all.  The same folks who are running
> the .to TLD appear to have the .tv TLD too.  Didn't a few of us
> post something about preventing this from being a problem back
> in October 1995 on domain-policy?

For a while in 1995, WebTV's website was accessible at http://web.tv

> How much do you suppose NBC [might have] paid for the NBC.TV
> domain name?

Even more interesting will be which ABC gets abc.tv? Will the Australians
or the Americans prevail?

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