Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

[Ray Soucy <rps () maine edu>]

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.
>
> No.  Just, no.
>
>  http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/17/202245/
>
> Cjeers,
> -- jra
> --
> Jay R. Ashworth                  Baylink                       jra () baylink com
> Designer                     The Things I Think                       RFC 2100
> Ashworth & Associates     http://baylink.pitas.com         2000 Land Rover DII
> St Petersburg FL USA      http://photo.imageinc.us             +1 727 647 1274



-- 
Ray Soucy

Epic Communications Specialist

Phone: +1 (207) 561-3526

Networkmaine, a Unit of the University of Maine System
http://www.networkmaine.net/