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[registrars] Regarding rules that don't work going forward
- To: <registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: [registrars] Regarding rules that don't work going forward
- From: "Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:37:40 +1000
- Sender: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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- Thread-topic: Regarding rules that don't work going forward
Hello John,
> >The upshot is "info.com good, com.info bad. Museum.com good,
> >com.museum bad. Etc.".
>
>
> And, perhaps having assumed it would be obvious, but maybe not...
>
> This rule, while pleasing to someone's sense of power, is
> utterly stupid as applied to a system where all future TLD's
> are unknown, since any future (and presently unknown) TLD
> string is registrable at any time in any pre-existing TLD.
> So, over time, the rule itself does not prevent the harm
> sought to be prevented.
>
Yes we experienced this in Australia. We had a rule that you couldn't
register place names in .com.au. Of course new places were named over
time, and thus you ended up with a situation that some place names
seemed to be registered in .com.au and some were not.
Regards,
Bruce
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