re ICANN Likely to Approve "Dot-Ex-Ex-Ex" Domain for Chumps!

[Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>]

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> From: "Synthesis:Law and Technology Law and Technology" <synthesis.law.and.technology () gmail com>
> Date: June 24, 2010 8:04:14 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>, Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] ICANN Likely to Approve "Dot-Ex-Ex-Ex" Domain for Chumps!

> Dave,
>  
> FWIW this debate has gone since before ICANN was created.  It was dumb in 1996 and everyone could articulate all the 
> reasons back then even before "I know it when I see it".  It boggles the mind that ICANN, with access to all the 
> commentary over the years, still manages to get it 'wrong' absent even a compelling 'hint' (let alone reason) that 
> anything has changed? At least make the pretence of "well this has changed so we revisit"?
>  
> Dan Steinberg
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> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Dave Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
>
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> > From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> > Date: June 24, 2010 5:29:58 PM EDT
> > To: dave () farber net
> > Subject: ICANN Likely to Approve "Dot-Ex-Ex-Ex" Domain for Chumps!
>
> >          ICANN Likely to Approve "Dot-Ex-Ex-Ex" Domain for Chumps!
> >
> >                http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000723.html
> >
> >
> > Greetings.  Word is that tomorrow ICANN is likely to reverse itself
> > yet again, and (under continuing lawsuit threats from the would-be
> > TLD-operator who desperately wants to cash-in on this fiasco) 
> > unwisely approve a "dot-ex-ex-ex" top-level domain 
> > ( http://bit.ly/aXdX4k [IBTimes] ).
> >
> > Every word that I wrote back in 2005 about this topic, in "Open
> > Letter: Why 'Dot-Ex-Ex-Ex' is for Chumps" still holds true, perhaps
> > even more now half a decade later 
> > ( http://bit.ly/bRtaFj [Lauren's Blog] ).
> >
> > If ICANN moves as reported on this, it is bad news for everyone
> > concerned about free speech and civil liberties on and off the
> > Internet, regardless of how you feel about the sorts of enterprises
> > being targeted by this new TLD.
> >
> > --Lauren--
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