See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNames On January 20, 2022 at 11:16 nanog@nanog.org (Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG) wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 10:29 AM james.cutler@consultant.com < james.cutler@consultant.com> wrote:
As in any other company, the Marketing Department has to find some activity to prove their worth.
I don't think you realize just how much effort you have to put into finding a vaguely pronounceable .com domain in today's world. Marketing probably spent months asking the tech staff to do whois lookups for them until they found something vaguely marketable.
I'm sure we'll eventually get back to AOL keyword searches and let anyone register any random TLD they want. Just email aaron@isawesome. What? No .com? Nope. What's your website? Just type the keyword..er...domain 'isawesome' into your browser.
-A
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