RE: [wg-c] new TLDs

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

Not at all. WRT WEB, the BoD is excersizing duck-and-cover. Of three
possible scenarios, that is the one that hurts them the least. They deferred
it to the new BoD.

BTW, this ain't over yet, folks!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Lutts [mailto:andy@netatlantic.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 7:17 AM
> To: wg-c@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [wg-c] new TLDs
> 
> 
> To us, the new TLDs look like a mixed bag. I can see ICANNs 
> strategy to accept new TLDs of different types, but it 
> doesn't seem to help the domain name shortage that much (for 
> the immediate future, anyhow). 
> 
> Too bad they missed the boat on:
> .per
> .fam
> .sex 
> .xxx
> and many other more popular generic ones. These would have 
> helped to free up some namespace.
> 
> Also, with .web, it looks like ICANN gave .info to Afilias to 
> appease Afilias, and at the same time give Image Online 
> Design a little more time to get .web ready for a future 
> rollout next time around. 
> 
> Is that the way you see it?
> 
> Andy
> 
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