|
Pending TLD applications, forever?
|
Log in/Create an Account
| Top
| 20 comments
|
Search Discussion
|
|
|
|
The Fine Print:
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them.
We are not responsible for them in any way.
|
|
 |
ICANN has selected Neustar to destroy another TLD.
They did such a great job with .BIZ, with an
illegal lottery and a 2-year grace period to get
a simple registry working, they need to be
rewarded with the next job to Neuke .TRAVEL.
Neuking .TRAVEL helps to serve many purposes of
the ISOC.
1. It helps to destroy any business opportunity
that a pioneer like New.Net thought they had.
2. It will ensure that .TRAVEL names are not
widely used. That might cut into some ISOC .ORG revenue.
3. It will distract the Neutron bomb company
from getting near the .NET rebid, which is
being secretly finessed to the ISOC insiders.
4. The Registrars will make a fortune off of the
chaos from the Neutron bomb explosion. What will
it be this time ? $900 for a travel agent to
sign up to wait 6 months to find out if they
then get to pay $15,000 for an arbitration
procedure to determine if they get the name they
desire ?
5. All useful .TRAVEL names will of course be
"reserved" for the IANA to use. He disappeared
in 1998, and has not been seen since being
Neuked, but still serves the DOD's purposes.
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
|
"I really can't believe that the ".mobi" folks did a bad job"
.MOBI was not a *Real* Application, It was a Troll.
Bill Gates and the other people in the .MOBI
Application just wanted to see how the ICANN
monster reacts. They are dividing up the
single-letter TLDs without ICANN's **help**.
Mobile users want short names for less keystrokes.
The .MOBI applicants are more than capable of
taking whatever TLDs they want when they want.
They just simply change their software (Windows)
and point to their production servers. They are
letting the ISOC develop their customer base
and run the market trials.
.MOBI was about as serious as .MOO
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
|
|
Did anyone really believe Vinton Cerf when he
said that .WEB would be in "the next round" ?
Do you really think the legacy root servers will
be used with the new production-version of the
Internet ?
Do you think American consumers will pay any
attention to the ISOC Taliban censors ?
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
|
|
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-27 oct04.htm
"The independent review process, headed by an independent project manager, consisted of three panels of experts to measure the applications against the criteria posted in the RFP."
Let's see, the spin on this would be that ICANN
can not disclose any people's names because they
might be approached and paid money to make
decisions in a certain way. It also might disclose
that it is just a bunch of senile old goats
in the back room flipping a coin until it comes
out with the answer the CIA and DOD provided.
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
|
http://www.arin.net/elections/2004results.html
"Sanford is aware of ARIN issues having served on the Advisory Council and is also no stranger to ICANN issues, having come from ISI (home of IANA) previously."
Keep it in the closed circle of Jon Postel followers.
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
|
|
To demonstrate their clout and power, the Swiss
will of course work hand in hand with the ISOC
(with offices in Geneva) to prevent names such as:
Washington.POST
That will open the door for a complete .POST
Registry if .POST moves beyond the
Proof-of-Concept Market Trial.
.NET will have a complete Registry when the
production version of .NET is deployed.
All single-letter .NET names will no longer
be censored. That was something the academic kook
Jon Postel thought was cute.
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
|
Well according to ICANN/WIPO rules for cybersquatting on trademarks they can not.
On the 1925 trademark word 'POST' - we have CLUETT, PEABODY & CO. INC.
Also:
KRAFT FOODS, INC.
Ashland Oil, Inc.
POST PROPERTIES, INC.
etc. - not forgetting recent addition Morgan Stanley.
On the trademark 'TRAVEL' - is HACHETTE FILPACCHI MEDIA U.S., INC.
As to all the others, just look on USPTO.gov to see how many 'confusingly similar' trademarks there.
For the MOBI TLD hopeful - no joy there either.
We have Pentair Pool Products, Inc. also it is 'confusingly similar' to MOBIS - Hyundai Precision & Ind. Co., Ltd.
Those with more than half a brain can see - UDRP rules are a load of B.S. designed to aid and abet overreaching corporate trademarks.
Mind you - some people seem just too cowardly to admit it ;-)
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
|
|
Michael Gallagher, US Department of Commerce NTIA regarding the formation of the CC1 ENUM LLC.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/press/2004/enumor g_10292004.html
TOP TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INTERNET COMPANIES FORM COUNTRY CODE 1 ENUM LLC TO FOSTER NEW INTERNET TELECOM TECHNOLOGY New Organization to Promote Development of Technology to Combine Internet with Traditional Telephony to Offer Streamlined Communication
Country Code 1 ENUM LLC will manage the public infrastructure that translates traditional telephone numbers into Internet domain names, combining the reach and capabilities of the Internet with the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to enable new communications capabilities. CC1 ENUM LLC members include AT&T, GoDaddy.com, MCI, SBC Laboratories, Sprint, and Verizon.
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
|
|
|
You know, the applicants of the 2000 process summarily wrote off the original 1995-1996 Draft Postel TLD applications. Now these 2000 applications apparently face the same fate. And so do the rest.
Have we figured this out yet folks?
Let me give you a clue:
Try to get to grips with the word inclusive.
Now you get to go back to Draft Postel in 1995 to start all over. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200(M).
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
|
|
Does anyone have any info on where the .xxx application is?
That was one of the few applications that had a purpose if handled correctly but it seems ICANN has it pending, again.
Does this mean "no chance in hell" or "maybe"?
|
|
|
|
[ Reply to This | Parent
]
|
|
|
