On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 05:04:19PM -0400, Jean-Fran?ois Mezei wrote: > Bill Nash wrote: > > Off the top of my head, I can see some high dollar fist fights breaking > > out for .sex, .porn, .games, .hotel, etc. It'll be like the .alt tree on > > usenet for people with money. There may also be an actual fist fight over > > TLDs like .irc, .leet, .goatse, and .krad. Maybe not .krad. > > Say I am a pastry chef, and I pay $40 per year for "pastry.com", I got > it because I signed up early and now cherish my domain name. I am a > small business. > > But now, some rich guy can come in and bid for .pastry > > I have no money to participate in this endeavour, and no intentions of > running my own TLD. All I can do is voice an objection, but if the other > guy is also involved in food, he is likely to convince ICANN's comittees > that it is a legitimate request. > > Then you end up with pastry.com being the original small business, and > .pastry being anything else. This will lead to a lot of confusion.
I don't see that, and I don't see why a holder of pastry.com would have any valid reason at all to block a .pastry TLD registry -- let's remember; we're talking about registries here, not registrars. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin)
