[ga] Re: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Bulletin: Domain Exploitation Society Celebrates "Swinging" New Top-Level Domains

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lauren and all,

  The new .co TLD, swinging or not will end up being populated
by very similar registrants and inheret the same problems that
.com has now, along with other TLD's unless something much more
substancial is done early on with respect to DNSSEC and other
secuirty related considerations. None the less I do admire 
GoDaddy's marketing attempt here. As we already know, ICANN is
planning on introducing an additional 100 to 200 new TLD's to
the marketplace.  I doubt that that many will be introduced,
but even if it is 50 or so, the dilution factor alone will
impact significantly GoDaddy's marketing jargon claim.

  So far a number of new gTLD's have been introduced, several
have failed or are barely hanging on financially speeking.


-----Original Message-----
>From: privacy@xxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Nov 13, 2010 9:22 PM
>To: privacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Bulletin: Domain Exploitation Society Celebrates    
>"Swinging" New Top-Level Domains
>
>
>
>                Bulletin: Domain Exploitation Society Celebrates 
>                       "Swinging" New Top-Level Domains
>
>                  http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000780.html
>
>
>Frostbite Falls, Minn. (ZAP) -- The Minnesota-based Society for
>Leveraged Internet Mercenary Exploitation Domains (SLIMED) expressed
>enthusiastic satisfaction with leading domain registrar Go Daddy's
>decision to feature the new ".co" [sic] Top-Level Domain (TLD) as the
>default on its home page ( http://www.godaddy.com ) today,
>reducing to "trash" status the old, obsolete, useless, silly, obscene,
>disgraceful, painful, purulent, and less expensive ".com" TLD that all
>consumers already understand.
>
>"This decision by Go Daddy to emphasize .co [sic] signals the real
>beginning of the TLD gold rush -- with literally thousands of new TLDs
>promised over the next few years by Internet Control Authorities,"
>said Boris Puteo, SLIMED media affairs and financial director, at an
>interview today during a celebratory gala at the ultra-exclusive
>"Masa" restaurant in New York City.
>
>"TLDs are like gold," said Puteo, "even better than gold in fact,
>since you can't force people to buy bullion, but you've got everyone
>over a barrel when it comes to protective domain registrations!"
>
>Puteo refuted claims that the coming deluge of new TLDs will carry
>enormous costs and confuse consumers, while opening avenues for vast
>numbers of new phishing scams and spam attacks, without bringing any
>real positive value to ordinary Internet users.
>
>"If people can't figure out the difference between .co [sic] and .com,
>they're just, well, sic [sic!] in the head.  Why can't these bleeding
>heart, pencil-necked geeks stop rocking the boat 
>( http://bit.ly/dh6zOf [Lauren's Blog] ) and just get back into their
>cubicles and their damned programming -- oh excuuuse me, I mean
>"softwaaare engineeeering!" said Mr. Puteo, "Just leave the moola
>magic to us!"
>
>SLIMED's Puteo also noted that an illuminating and very short new
>YouTube video ( http://bit.ly/yt-tld-process ) was now available for
>viewing -- showing the Top-Level Domain consideration procedure in
>action, and incontrovertibly demonstrating the complex, serious,
>lucid, and deliberative process involved in TLD approvals.
>
>"Top-Level Domains really swing!  And while I probably shouldn't be
>telling you this yet, SLIMED is hoping to make a deal with Burundi so
>that we can sell ".bi" TLD domains to everyone who swings both ways!
>God, I love the Internet!" Puteo added.
>
> - - -
>
>--Lauren--
>Lauren Weinstein (lauren@xxxxxxxxxx)
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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