On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names

Mon Apr 2 03:15:58 UTC 2007

On Apr 1, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Douglas Otis wrote:

>  Reacting to new domains after the fact is often too late.

What happens when they're wrong?

And who's 'they', btw?  What qualifications must 'they' have?  And  
what happens if a registrar disagrees with 'them'?  Or when 'they'  
are instructed by their governments to objection to a domain because  
of its perceived lack of redeeming social value, or somesuch?

It seems to me as if we've just talked through the  
institutionalization of the Department of Domain Pre-Crime, with all  
that entails.  It could be argued that the proposed solution might be  
worse than the problem it's purporting to solve.

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