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Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs


From: Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:07:11 -0400


On Jun 27, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Alexander Harrowell wrote:

Well, at least the new TLDs will promote DNS-based cruft filtration. You can already safely ignore anything with a .name, .biz, .info, .tv suffix, to name just the worst. If only there was a way to get the cruft to move over
into the new ones...

Hey, please don't ignore .tv. No cruft from me, at least.

Marshall



On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:05 PM, John Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:

Some people are going to get very rich over this.

How do you know this? Judging by the past experience of TLDs
there will not be a rush of customers but there will be a rush
of people trying to make a buck.

You might enjoy my blog entries about the .TRAVEL domain:

http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/travelcroak.html

http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/travelnotdead.html

http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/traveldrain.html

http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/travelstillnotdead.html






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