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Well, considering that people on this forum are now blasting Afilias for extending
their deadline, it seems like the registries of new TLDs positively can't win...
whatever they do or don't do, somebody is going to attack them for it. I'm not
defending them -- they've done a lot that deserves vigorous criticism in the course
of the botched launchings of the new TLDs -- but I also do think that they're in
a no-win situation, with all the vocal critics around; people will find something
to attack about them no matter what they do. Even if the new TLD launches were
run by angels and done with complete perfection, somebody would still be griping
about them, whether it's the trademark lobby thinking they didn't get sufficient
advantages over everybody else to get all names that have any resemblance to a word
they think they own, or the speculators who want the domain landrush to be an all-you-can-eat
buffet so they can grab all the good names quickly.
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