Re: [wg-c] Retraction of previous proposal

[John Charles Broomfield <jbroom@manta.outremer.com>]

> > Some time this
> > year, we advised potential applicants that we did not know when the gTLDs
> > would be delegated.  We started accepting applications again, but without
> > the nominal $15 charge.
> 
> Keyword: when (as opposed to "if")
> 
> I believe the complaint, and I share it, is that the statement is very
> misleading and continues CORE's history, over the past few
> years, of moving the date ahead while continuing to claim that
> CORE would be first into the root.
> 
> Recent actions like applications for trademarks on already
> used marks just reinforces the scorn.
> 
> Christopher

From http://www.webtld.com
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Image Online Design is confident that its .web registry will be among the
first new Top Level Domains added to the Internet's root name servers as
competition is introduced. 
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Pot, kettle... you know the rest.

John.