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IAB Calls on ICANN to Withdraw Top-Level Domain Plan

• freshhawk 15y ago
  Appealing to the non-existent support for the poor downtrodden "media brand owners" might not be the best way to push your agenda. Also, domain squatters aren't really happy about this, if multiple TLDs become popular then the already dying business of domain squatting generic terms (squatting trademarked terms is already a dead business thanks to the UDRP process) just becomes even less profitable. I'm not even sure what "black hat domain traders" refers to, I'm assuming they mean domain squatters and don't know what "black hat" means.
• Triumvark 15y ago
  Since some might exploit or squat on these, no one should get them? Following that logic, we wouldn't have any domain names at all. The prima facie argument seems 'pro' - it's a technical restriction that didn't turn out to be necessary or as informative as originally thought. Why hang on to limitations that are essentially historical accidents?
  • wmf 15y ago
    From their perspective, multiple TLDs are probably a historical accident — they'd probably prefer if everything was under .com.
• iwwr 15y ago
  ISPs could supply their customers with optional DNS servers that ignore these new domains, couldn't they?
  • sukuriant 15y ago
    What would be the advantage?
• deleted 15y ago
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