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From: "David Conrad" <drc@virtualized.org>
On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/17/202245/ You just learned about this now? In fact I did. I certainly haven't seen it mentioned on NANOG in the last 6 months or so; where should I have seen it?
New TLDs have been discussed now for over a decade. Press (both technical and popular) on ICANN activities have ratcheted up significantly recently, particularly with the approval of .XXX (which was recently discussed here on NANOG: http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-March/034488.html). Not blaming/accusing, just surprised this would be a surprise. I guess I've been living in the layer9 cloud too long....
FFS, David. I didn't say "new gTLDs". I said, rather specifically, "commercial gTLDs", IE: gTLDs *proprietary to a specific commercial enterprise*. http:///www.apple And no, I had not heard *any noise* that anyone was seriously considering this up until this announcement. Cheers, -- 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