Re: Re[4]: [wg-c] Re: IP/TM Concerns & New GTLDs

["Mark C. Langston" <skritch@home.com>]

On 3 August 1999, Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> wrote:
>
>The CORE registrars all invested $cash$ in a gTLD registry on exactly
>that basis, over a year ago, and they are still here.  Furthermore,
>they aren't going away.  Another case of bumblebees not being able 
>to fly, it seems to me.

Why should they go away? They have a vested interest in seeing that
the 7 (or 8) new TLDs they proposed get added to the roots:  Namely,
because they've already presold the namespace in those potential
TLDs.

Of course, this makes calls for just exactly those new TLDs a bit
suspicious, because it puts the CORE registrars in an uncomfortable
position if those TLDs aren't added to the roots soon.

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