On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/06/01/internet.porn.ap/index.html
|ICM contends the "xxx" Web addresses, which it plans to sell for $60 a |year, will protect children from online smut if adult sites voluntarily |adopt the suffix so filtering software used by families can more |effectively block access to those sites How is charging $60/year going to protect children from "online smut"? if anything it'll still be that less reputable will continue to use less expensive domains. Also I'm curious how much of that $60 will go to ICANN packet? If not much then ICM is getting really good deal, amazingly good deal, a monopoly heaven in fact that reminds me of another TLD decision mentioned at nanog that ICANN is about to make official... -- William Leibzon Elan Networks william@elan.net