ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
Owen DeLong
owen at delong.com
Sat Jun 18 09:30:22 UTC 2011
On Jun 18, 2011, at 1:47 AM, Mark Andrews wrote:
>
> In message <201106180718.p5I7IrBe020792 at mail.r-bonomi.com>, Robert Bonomi write
> s:
>>
>>> Subject: Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
>>> From: Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com>
>>>
>>> MacDonald's would likely get title to .macdonalds under the new rules,
>>> right?
>>>
>>> Well... Which MacDonald's?
>>>
>>> 1. The fast food chain
>>> 2. O.C. MacDonald's Plumbing Supply
>>> 3. MacDonald and Sons Paving Systems
>>> 4. MacDonald and Madison Supply Company
>>> 5. etc.
>>
>> Easy to resolve (excuse the pun) _that_ one.
>>
>> The _senior_ claimant to that domain would be Clan MacDonald, of Scotland.
>>
>> Who gets 'apple'? Apple (the computer company), Apple (the record company)?
>> How about the 'fruit of the month' club?
>>
>> Now, if you want a _hard_ problem, who gets to register 'YellowPages' ?
>> <*EVIL* grin>
>
> YellowPages would work. It's used under licence.
>
> au.YellowPages
> uk.YellowPages
>
> As for single label hostnames, RFC 897 got rid of single label
> hostnames and they should not come back. They are a security issue,
> see RFC 1535.
>
> This has been pointed out in the past.
>
> Mark
> --
> Mark Andrews, ISC
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All true. However, since TLDs will now be run by anyone with $185k/year to get
what they want...
Owen
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