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Username: fabrcop
Date/Time: Mon, November 13, 2000 at 11:57 AM GMT
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Subject: In a few days?! Read this article

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http://aolpf.marketwatch.com/source/blq/aolpf/archive/20001112/news/current/icann.asp

I read in this interesting article:

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. (AP) -- To relieve overcrowding in dot-com
addresses, the international organization in charge of Internet names could select several new suffixes *by week's end*, including .biz and .web .

[snip]

"The week will be very busy, with lots of intense discussions," said Esther Dyson, the ICANN board's chairwoman. "I'm sure there are people who are going to be unhappy."

[snip]

An ICANN task force recommended that the board move slowly, picking
six to 10 for now to test their effect on the global network and its users.

[snip]

Christopher Ambler, whose company has been registering .web names,
plans to challenge ICANN's authority if it picks one of the two competing proposals for .web. ICANN advisers found his proposal defective but revived it when Internet users posted favorable comments in discussion boards.

[snip]

MY COMMENT: actually Mr. Ambler (IOD) has NEVER planned to challenge
ICANN (this is what he wrote in ICANN forums), since he is confident
that IOD will get .web (he can't figure out a different solution).

However, it is apparent that IOD's matter about .web
is considered very, very important, and is reported in most
articles about new TLDs.

Regards

Fabrizio Coppola
Italy

 

Link: Interesting article


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