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ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet
- Subject: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet
- From: joelja at bogus.com (Joel Jaeggli)
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:27:00 -0700
- In-reply-to: <004a01cbe7ec$338874b0$9a995e10$@net>
- References: <004a01cbe7ec$338874b0$9a995e10$@net>
On 3/21/11 10:19 AM, Stefan Fouant wrote:
> Surprised this was actually approved, but more so that this story seems to
> have gone unnoticed on the list... I would have expected a lot more chatter
> here -
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> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/icann-approves-xxx-red-light
> -district-for-the-internet.ars
>
> So the days of pointless TLDs are amongst us as we've now given would-be
> registrars the right to print money and companies are forced to purchase
> useless domain names in order to protect their trademarks, prevent
> squatting, etc. When will sanity prevail?
.biz/.info was 2001
> Stefan Fouant
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