Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-23 Thread brunner
> My perception is that if you don't have access to ~$2M for that kind > of gTLD don't even waste your time. you may want to consult with a practitioner in the jurisdiction of your choice who does business organization and investor equity structures, as the cost to acquire a right to contract for

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-23 Thread Jorge Amodio
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:10 PM, John Levine wrote: >>Lets say I want to apply for .WINE with commercial purposes, then what >>is a ballpark figure for the funds/investment required ? > > I wouldn't try it with less than a million bucks in hand.  Beyond the > ICANN application nonsense, you'd als

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-23 Thread John Levine
>Lets say I want to apply for .WINE with commercial purposes, then what >is a ballpark figure for the funds/investment required ? I wouldn't try it with less than a million bucks in hand. Beyond the ICANN application nonsense, you'd also want to budget something for running and promoting it for h

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-23 Thread brunner
> Lets say I want to apply for .WINE with commercial purposes, then what > is a ballpark figure for the funds/investment required ? > > My guess, it is way way above the $185K assuming no defect in the application, necessitiating a second bite at the apple, at cost (extended eval), and no objectio

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-23 Thread Jorge Amodio
> keep in mind that the venues for asking precise questions for the > purpose of obtaining accurate answers of record are tdg-legal, or > the saturday gnso gtld hours ("the kurt show"). "Kurt Show" that's a good one. I was not expecting any elaborated response, just see if anybody on that panel h

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-23 Thread brunner
> Well I just asked the question during the "Getting Ready" panel at the > ICANN 41 meeting. keep in mind that the venues for asking precise questions for the purpose of obtaining accurate answers of record are tdg-legal, or the saturday gnso gtld hours ("the kurt show"). > Q: How much on top of

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-22 Thread Jorge Amodio
Well I just asked the question during the "Getting Ready" panel at the ICANN 41 meeting. Q: How much on top of the $185K is required for a new gTLD Answers: It is hard to say, too many variables, biz plan dependencies, if the string will be contended it can go to a more complex/costly process, b

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-21 Thread brunner
> I was talking about public perception and the ability to change it > through marketing; not any actual security. > > It's like the difference between ".com" and ".biz", "people" don't > understand when something isn't a ".com" and don't trust it. When I > say "people" I'm talking about the avera

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-21 Thread Jorge Amodio
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Ray Soucy wrote: > I was talking about public perception and the ability to change it > through marketing; not any actual security. > > It's like the difference between ".com" and ".biz", "people" don't > understand when something isn't a ".com" and don't trust it.

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-21 Thread Kyle Creyts
Or .inc? On Jun 21, 2011 10:57 AM, wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:39:00 MDT, Joel Maslak said: >> I wonder what sort of money .wpad would be worth... > > I was thinking .gbmh myself... >

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-21 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:39:00 MDT, Joel Maslak said: > I wonder what sort of money .wpad would be worth... I was thinking .gbmh myself... pgpRDYInukJWY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-21 Thread Ray Soucy
I was talking about public perception and the ability to change it through marketing; not any actual security. It's like the difference between ".com" and ".biz", "people" don't understand when something isn't a ".com" and don't trust it. When I say "people" I'm talking about the average non-tech

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Joly MacFie
And you are to be complimented on your diligence in this respect, Eric. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:21 PM, wrote: > > this is still an area of active work, i was working on it ... yesterday > and the day before, today, and tomorrow and the day after tomorrow ... > > -- --

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Mark Andrews" > In message <20110620223618.2927.qm...@joyce.lan>, "John Levine" > writes: > > You're in good company. It's hard to find a modern mail system that > > allows abbreviated domain names in addresses. I just checked the > > mail at AOL, Yahoo, Gmai

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Joel Maslak
I wonder what sort of money .wpad would be worth...

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread brunner
> 185K is just the application few, the process includes some > requirements to have a given amount of dough for operations in escrow, > add what you need to pay attorneys, "experts" > , lobbyists, and setup and staff a small corporation even if you plan > to outsource part of the dayt-2-day operat

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <20110620223618.2927.qm...@joyce.lan>, "John Levine" writes: > >> do you want to issue a RFC that bans search lists? > > > >Personally, I think search lists are a mistake and don't use them. > > You're in good company. It's hard to find a modern mail system that > allows abbreviated d

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <201106202158.p5klwaxw088...@bartok.nlnetlabs.nl>, Jaap Akkerhuis wr ites: > > (Marka) > See RFC 1535. Yes, a mistake was made implementing search lists. > A RFC was issued to say don't do search lists this way. > > Which RFC? What way? RFC 1535. A Securit

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , David Conrad writes: > On Jun 20, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > do you want to issue a RFC that bans search lists? > > Personally, I think search lists are a mistake and don't use them. If > you do use them, then you are accepting a certain amount of ambiguity. > Naked

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Jorge Amodio
185K is just the application few, the process includes some requirements to have a given amount of dough for operations in escrow, add what you need to pay attorneys, "experts" , lobbyists, and setup and staff a small corporation even if you plan to outsource part of the dayt-2-day operations to a

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread John Levine
>> do you want to issue a RFC that bans search lists? > >Personally, I think search lists are a mistake and don't use them. You're in good company. It's hard to find a modern mail system that allows abbreviated domain names in addresses. I just checked the mail at AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail,

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Paul Graydon wrote: I've seen the stuff about adding a few extra TLDs, like XXX. I haven't seen any references until now of them considering doing it on a commercial basis. I don't mind new TLDs, but company ones are crazy and going to lead to a confusing and messy internet. I don't know a

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
(Marka) See RFC 1535. Yes, a mistake was made implementing search lists. A RFC was issued to say don't do search lists this way. Which RFC? What way? It would be nice if you would say what you mean instead keep referring to things the reader has to guess. jaap

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <20110620190517.2242.qm...@joyce.lan>, "John Levine" writes: > >> Simple hostnames as, global identifiers, were supposed to cease > >> to work in 1984. > >> > >> Can you point out where that is stated? > >> > >>jaap > > > >RFC 897. > > I see where it says that all of

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread David Sparro
On 6/18/2011 4:14 PM, John R. Levine wrote: If the USG operators said "sorry, the DOJ anti-trust rules don't allow us to serve a zone with .HONDA and .BACARDI", why would the the pressure be on them rather than on ICANN? Nobody outside the ICANN bubble cares about more TLDs. I think the most i

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread David Conrad
On Jun 20, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: > do you want to issue a RFC that bans search lists? Personally, I think search lists are a mistake and don't use them. If you do use them, then you are accepting a certain amount of ambiguity. Naked TLDs will increase that ambiguity and would r

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <77733847-fbf7-460a-ad30-08dc42dc3...@virtualized.org>, David Conrad writes: > On Jun 20, 2011, at 12:14 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: > >> So they get what they ask for: Ambiguity in resolving the name space. > > There is no ambiguity if tld operators don't unilaterally add address > > reco

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread brunner
ray, > ... only trust ".band" and that ".com" et. al. are "less secure". "secure" is not a well-defined term. as the .com registry access model accepts credit card fraud risk, a hypothetical registry, say .giro, with wholesale registration at the same dollar price point but an access mechanism a

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread John Levine
>> Simple hostnames as, global identifiers, were supposed to cease >> to work in 1984. >> >> Can you point out where that is stated? >> >> jaap > >RFC 897. I see where it says that all of the hosts that existed in 1984 were supposed to change their names to something with at lea

RE: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread George Bonser
> With a $185,000 application fee this tends to really kill small > businesses and conditions the public to favor ecommerce with the > giants, not to mention a nice revenue boost for ICANN. > > Would love to hear the dirt on backroom conversations that led to this > decision... > > Hopefully ther

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread David Conrad
On Jun 20, 2011, at 2:35 AM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: > Randy Bush writes: >> what's new? how about the operational technical effects, like data from >> modeling various resolvers' responses to a large root zone? Yep. That is an area that has been identified as needing additional study (see c

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread John Levine
>How long before we see marketing campaigns urging people to only trust >".band" and that ".com" et. al. are "less secure". An interesting question. There was a group that was supposed to work on "high security TLDs". I suggested that to be usefully high security, the registry should make site v

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Ray Soucy
Technical issues aside (and there are many...) How long before we see marketing campaigns urging people to only trust ".band" and that ".com" et. al. are "less secure". With a $185,000 application fee this tends to really kill small businesses and conditions the public to favor ecommerce with the

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Tony Finch
On 18 Jun 2011, at 09:22, Owen DeLong wrote: > > In . lives a pointer to apple. consisting of one or more NS records and > possibly some A/ glue for those nameservers if they are within apple. Don't forget the DS records containing the hash of Apple's DNSSEC KSK. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread David Conrad
On Jun 20, 2011, at 12:14 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: >> So they get what they ask for: Ambiguity in resolving the name space. > There is no ambiguity if tld operators don't unilaterally add address > records causing simple hostnames to resolve. EDU.COM. Regards, -drc

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Matthew Palmer writes: > And it only gets better from there... how many places have various "cutesy" > naming schemes that might include one or more trademarks (or whatever) that > someone might want as a TLD? As it happens, I have a set of routers that are named { craftsman, makita, dewalt, b

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Randy Bush writes: > what's new? how about the operational technical effects, like data from > modeling various resolvers' responses to a large root zone? I think the proper model is popular TLDs, perhaps the traditional gTLDs. As any (even former) decent sized TLD operator can tell you, both

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <201106201034.p5kayz2e008...@bartok.nlnetlabs.nl>, Jaap Akkerhuis wr ites: > > > Simple hostnames as, global identifiers, were supposed to cease > to work in 1984. > > Can you point out where that is stated? > > jaap RFC 897. -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St.,

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
Simple hostnames as, global identifiers, were supposed to cease to work in 1984. Can you point out where that is stated? jaap

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <201106200951.p5k9pmsw051...@bartok.nlnetlabs.nl>, Jaap Akkerhuis wr ites: > Which is your choice. Lots of others want search lists. I've seen > requests for 20+ elements. > > So they get what they ask for: Ambiguity in resolving the name space. > > jaap There is

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
Which is your choice. Lots of others want search lists. I've seen requests for 20+ elements. So they get what they ask for: Ambiguity in resolving the name space. jaap

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <201106200739.p5k7dxhj071...@bartok.nlnetlabs.nl>, Jaap Akkerhuis wr ites: > > (Mark:) > Which just means we need to write yet another RFC saying that > resolvers shouldn't lookup simple host names in the DNS. Simple > host names should be qualified against a searc

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Warren Kumari
On Jun 17, 2011, at 9:13 PM, David Conrad wrote: > On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> I really don't think that namespace issues are part of the role for the ASO >> AC. > > Why do you think there is an ASO? > >> This is clearly a problem for ICANN's disaster-ridden domain-name

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
(Mark:) Which just means we need to write yet another RFC saying that resolvers shouldn't lookup simple host names in the DNS. Simple host names should be qualified against a search list. I don't see the problem. I'm happily running with a empty search list for the last 2

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 08:22:17PM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Paul Vixie" > > > inevitably there will be folks who register .FOOBAR and advertise it as > > "http://foobar/"; on a billboard and then get burned by all of the local > > "foobar.this.tld" and

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Paul Vixie" > inevitably there will be folks who register .FOOBAR and advertise it as > "http://foobar/"; on a billboard and then get burned by all of the local > "foobar.this.tld" and "foobar.that.tld" names that will get reached > instead of their TLD. i sa

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <21633.1308527...@nsa.vix.com>, Paul Vixie writes: > Jay Ashworth writes: > > > ... and that the root wouldn't be affected by the sort of things that > > previously-2LD now TLD operators might want to do with their > > monocomponent names... > > someone asked me privately a related q

The Internet Is An Engineering Construct (was: Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs)

2011-06-19 Thread Jay Ashworth
Original Message - > From: "Owen DeLong" > OTOH, I can easily see $COMPANY deciding that $RFC is not in their > best interests and find the http://microsoft construct not at all > unlikely. > > I realize that no responsible software vendor would ever deliberately > do something insecure

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 19, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Paul Vixie" > >> David Conrad writes: >>> I believe the root server operators have stated (the equivalent of) that >>> it is not their job to make editorial decisions on what the root zone >>> contains. T

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Vixie
Jay Ashworth writes: > ... and that the root wouldn't be affected by the sort of things that > previously-2LD now TLD operators might want to do with their > monocomponent names... someone asked me privately a related question which is, if there's a .SONY and someone's web browser looks up http:

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Paul Vixie" > David Conrad writes: > > I believe the root server operators have stated (the equivalent of) that > > it is not their job to make editorial decisions on what the root zone > > contains. They distribute what the ICANN/NTIA/Verisign gestalt > > p

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Vixie
David Conrad writes: > I believe the root server operators have stated (the equivalent of) that > it is not their job to make editorial decisions on what the root zone > contains. They distribute what the ICANN/NTIA/Verisign gestalt > publishes. yes. for one example, see: http://www.icann.org

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-18 Thread John R. Levine
run by agencies of the US government, who knows what will happen in the future. I'm not so sure volunteer root operators are in a position to editorialize and for that to have a positive effect. ICANN could go down the path of stating that this causes internet stability (due to operators publi

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-18 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:55 AM, John Levine wrote: > That has always been the case in the past.  Given the level of public > unhappiness that the US Dep't of Commerce has with ICANN's plan to add > zillions of new TLDs, and noting that several of the root servers are Speaking of some public unha

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-18 Thread John Levine
>I believe the root server operators have stated (the equivalent of) >that it is not their job to make editorial decisions on what the root >zone contains. They distribute what the ICANN/NTIA/Verisign gestalt >publishes. That has always been the case in the past. Given the level of public unhapp

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-18 Thread Randy Bush
i am not learning anything here. well, except maybe that someone who normally has his head up his butt also had it in the sand. what's new? how about the operational technical effects, like data from modeling various resolvers' responses to a large root zone? randy

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Subject: Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs > From: Owen DeLong > Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:24:37 -0700 > [[.. sneck ..]] > > While that is true, there are several McDonalds registered in various > spaces that actually predate even the existance of Mr. Crok'

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 18, 2011, at 1:47 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message <201106180718.p5i7irbe020...@mail.r-bonomi.com>, Robert Bonomi > write > s: >> >>> Subject: Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs >>> From: Owen DeLong >>> >>> MacDonald

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-18 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <201106180718.p5i7irbe020...@mail.r-bonomi.com>, Robert Bonomi write s: > > > Subject: Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs > > From: Owen DeLong > > > > MacDonald's would likely get title to .macdonalds under the new rules, > > right? &

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 17, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:04 AM, George B. wrote: >> I think I will get .payme and make sure coke.payme, pepsi.payme, >> comcast.payme, etc. all get registered at the low-low price of >> $10/year. All I would need is 100,000 registrations to

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 18, 2011, at 12:18 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > >> Subject: Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs >> From: Owen DeLong >> >> MacDonald's would likely get title to .macdonalds under the new rules, >> right? >> >> Well... Which MacDon

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 17, 2011, at 8:47 PM, John Osmon wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:44:07AM -1000, Paul Graydon wrote: >> [...] I don't mind new TLDs, but company ones are crazy >> and going to lead to a confusing and messy internet. > > Maybe we could demote the commercial ones to live under a singl

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 17, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Owen DeLong" > >> apple.com is a delegation from .com just as apple is a delegation from >> . >> >>> apple. and www.apple. are *not* -- and the root operators may throw >>> their hands up in the air if an

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 17, 2011, at 8:39 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Owen DeLong" > >> 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 >>

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Subject: Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs > From: Owen DeLong > > 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 Sup

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:04 AM, George B. wrote: > I think I will get .payme  and make sure coke.payme, pepsi.payme, > comcast.payme, etc. all get registered at the low-low price of > $10/year.  All I would need is 100,000 registrations to provide me > with a million dollar a year income stream

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Jay R Ashworth
David Conrad wrote: >Jay, > >On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:40 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >> and the root operators may throw >> their hands up in the air if anyone asks them to have anything in >their >> zone except glue -- rightly, I think; it's not a degree of complexity >> that's compatible with the requ

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread David Conrad
Jay, On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:40 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > and the root operators may throw > their hands up in the air if anyone asks them to have anything in their > zone except glue -- rightly, I think; it's not a degree of complexity > that's compatible with the required stability of the root zon

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread John Levine
>so did anyone have a question or is my epistolary stylistic genius sufficient >as topic of general interest? Hi. How does ICANN seem to be reacting to the flaming arrow that the DOC shot in front of them? Also, the DOC letter refers to a European Commission letter from Tuesday, which I can't fi

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread John Levine
>Well... Which MacDonald's? ICANN has a 350 page draft applicant guidebook on their web site that explains the barococo application and evaluation process here: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm Please do NOT download it or read it, since actual knowledge is so much less fun

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread David Conrad
On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:25 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:13 PM, David Conrad wrote: >> Why do you think there is an ASO? > To coordinate numberspace issues between the IANA and the RIRs. I believe the original intent was that the various SOs would provide their input on how policie

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread brunner
>> [...] I don't mind new TLDs, but company ones are crazy >> and going to lead to a confusing and messy internet. are either "confusing" or "messy" the best rationals for declining either or both of corporate names or trademarks? are these (corporate naming and trademark registration as gene

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread George B.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Aw, Jeezus. > > No.  Just, no. I think I will get .payme and make sure coke.payme, pepsi.payme, comcast.payme, etc. all get registered at the low-low price of $10/year. All I would need is 100,000 registrations to provide me with a million

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread John Osmon
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:44:07AM -1000, Paul Graydon wrote: > [...] I don't mind new TLDs, but company ones are crazy > and going to lead to a confusing and messy internet. Maybe we could demote the commercial ones to live under a single TLD to make things simpler/neater... :-)

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Owen DeLong" > 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

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Owen DeLong" > apple.com is a delegation from .com just as apple is a delegation from > . > > > apple. and www.apple. are *not* -- and the root operators may throw > > their hands up in the air if anyone asks them to have anything in > > their > > zone exce

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 17, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Joel Jaeggli" > http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/consultation-outreach-en.htm >>> >>> That page doesn't appear to discuss the specific topic I'm talking about, >>> and for the 9th or 10th tim

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:40 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Original Message - >> From: "Owen DeLong" > >> That won't stop them from building zone files that look like this: >> >> >> @ IN SOA ... >> NS ... >> ... >> A ... >> ... >> www A ... >> ... >> >> Sure, they'll advertise www

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread brunner
>> so did anyone have a question or is my epistolary stylistic genius >> sufficient as topic of general interest? > ... and he talked for 45 minutes, and no one understood a word that he said. i'm happy to leave the reportage and issue analysis to those better informed. you look to be someone b

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: brun...@nic-naa.net > howdy all from a cold room 100km north of the equator. > > > ... > > That's an *amazingly* oblique and de minimis reference to the topic > > on point, couched in Eric's usually opaque language ... > > ... > > i'm reading this from the me

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread brunner
howdy all from a cold room 100km north of the equator. > ... > That's an *amazingly* oblique and de minimis reference to the topic on > point, couched in Eric's usually opaque language ... > ... i'm reading this from the meeting room where the generic names supporting organization council is meet

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
Original Message - > From: "Owen DeLong" > That won't stop them from building zone files that look like this: > > > @ IN SOA ... > NS ... > ... > A ... > ... > www A ... > ... > > Sure, they'll advertise www.apple, but, you better believe that > they'll take whatever lands a

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:13 PM, David Conrad wrote: > On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> I really don't think that namespace issues are part of the role for the ASO >> AC. > > Why do you think there is an ASO? > To coordinate numberspace issues between the IANA and the RIRs. >>

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:09 PM, David Conrad wrote: > On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: http://apple/ is going to break a bunch of shit. >>> >>> All fully qualified domain names have a trailing dot so that you know >>> where t

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 08:25:28PM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: > Perhaps we could get an update to the relevant RFCs.. clarifying that > only NS records may be dotless in the root namespace? > > As in -- No hostnames A, MX, or CNAME at the TLD level. I suspect some are alrea

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread David Conrad
On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > I really don't think that namespace issues are part of the role for the ASO > AC. Why do you think there is an ASO? > This is clearly a problem for ICANN's disaster-ridden domain-name side, and > not > for the ASO/NRO side of things. Because th

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 17, 2011, at 6:38 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "David Conrad" > >> On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >>> That's an *amazingly* oblique and de minimis reference to the topic >>> on point, couched in Eric's usually opaque language, >> >> E

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread David Conrad
On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >> On Jun 17, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >>> http://apple/ is going to break a bunch of shit. >> >> All fully qualified domain names have a trailing dot so that you know >> where the root is. At least as parsed internally by your resolver

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 17, 2011, at 6:36 PM, David Conrad wrote: > On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >> That's an *amazingly* oblique and de minimis reference to the topic on >> point, couched in Eric's usually opaque language, > > Eric's writing style does take a bit of getting used to, but I us

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Joel Jaeggli" > On Jun 17, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > http://apple/ is going to break a bunch of shit. > > All fully qualified domain names have a trailing dot so that you know > where the root is. At least as parsed internally by your resolve

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread James Cloos
> "J" == Jeremy writes: J> well, crap. That's all I have to say :( Didn't you mean .crap ? ;-/ -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Jun 17, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" > >> As for calling ICANN stupid, thinking this will help fracture the >> 'Net, I think you are all confused. I think the NANOG community has >> become (OK, always was) a bit of an echo

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "David Conrad" > On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > That's an *amazingly* oblique and de minimis reference to the topic > > on point, couched in Eric's usually opaque language, > > Eric's writing style does take a bit of getting used to, but

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread David Conrad
On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > That's an *amazingly* oblique and de minimis reference to the topic on > point, couched in Eric's usually opaque language, Eric's writing style does take a bit of getting used to, but I usually find it enlightening (albeit occasionally in an exis

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > For me, the engineering problem remains *single-component FQDNs*.  I > can't itemize the code they'll break, but I'm quite certain there's a lot. Perhaps we could get an update to the relevant RFCs.. clarifying that only NS records may be do

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Joel Jaeggli" > >> http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/consultation-outreach-en.htm > > > > That page doesn't appear to discuss the specific topic I'm talking about, > > and for the 9th or 10th time, I *know* they've been talking about expanding > > the

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Jun 17, 2011, at 5:33 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "John Levine" > >> I happen to agree that adding vast numbers of new TLDs is a terrible >> idea more for administrative and social than technical reasons, but >> this is the first you've heard about it, you

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread John Levine
>This is the first I've heard of *the possibility of TLD registrars being >end-user internal/exclusive*. People around ICANN have been arguing about the registry/registrar split for years, and whether to have special rules for TLDs where one party would own all the names. Really. If this is the

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "David Conrad" > "Finally, because pancakes are calling, the very complainants of > squatting and defensive registration (the 1Q million-in-revenue every > applicant for an "open", now "standard" registry places in its > bizplan), the Intellectual Property Sta

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "John Levine" > I happen to agree that adding vast numbers of new TLDs is a terrible > idea more for administrative and social than technical reasons, but > this is the first you've heard about it, you really haven't been > paying attention. John, yes, I've b

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