26 Mar
2011
26 Mar
'11
9:41 p.m.
On Mar 26, 2011, at 5:28 PM, George Bonser wrote:
But do you really believe playboy are going to give up playboy.com?
They aren't going to give up Playboy.com but they are probably going to have to purchase playboy.xxx anyway.
What bothers me is that most companies are now going to be forced to purchase .xxx domains simply to keep someone else from buying it and sullying the company's image. So it is an instant cash windfall for the domain registrars.
There was no reason why we needed this.
But that is an excellent reason why someone would want it. I was involved in the IETF NEWDOM WG way back in ~1996 and heard all of these arguments then. IMHO this was snake oil 15 years ago, and it is even more snake oil now. Regards Marshall