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ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
From: "Jim Popovitch" <yahoo () jimpop com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:09:30 -0400
Two years ago I posed the question here about the need for TLDs (http://www.mcabee.org/lists/nanog/May-06/msg00110.html). I summerizsed that companies IP (Intellectual Property) guidelines would never allow domain.org to exist if they owned domain.com (ibm.org vrs ibm.com). I felt that TLDs really represented a monetary harvesting scheme as every new TLD forced companies to "pay for yet another domain name" (slowly milking businesses). At that time several knowledgeable folks commented that TLDs were necessary in the beginning due to the need to distribute queries. Now it seems, ICANN has decided to add a new paradigm :-) How will a TLD like .ibm be handled now, and how is this different than what I proposed in 2006? -Jim P.
Current thread:
- ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Jim Popovitch (Jun 26)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Jay R. Ashworth (Jun 26)
- RE: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Martin Hannigan (Jun 26)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Owen DeLong (Jun 26)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Ken Simpson (Jun 26)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Marshall Eubanks (Jun 26)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Ken Simpson (Jun 26)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Marshall Eubanks (Jun 26)
- RE: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Martin Hannigan (Jun 26)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Jay R. Ashworth (Jun 26)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Jason Williams (Jun 26)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Owen DeLong (Jun 26)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Jason Williams (Jun 26)