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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 07:17:24AM -0500, saundrakaerubel.com wrote:
> The Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and 
> Numbers (ICANN) voted unanimously

...which is to say, they excluded the representative elected by their
membership when they voted...

> to clear the way for .aero, .biz, .coop, 
> .info, .museum, .name and .pro to be added as generic top- level domains 
> (gTLDs) to the "legacy" root server, which lies at the heart of the 
> Internet's worldwide addressing system.
> http://www.emarketer.com/enews/newsbytes/20001116_ICANN_Approves.html?ref=dn
>  

The world yawns. Then it shudders. Then it wonders "why are they all
in english?" Then it thinks - "hey, won't eveyone with a .com address
just go ahead and register a .biz with the same second-level?" Then it
gasps and thinks "how much thought went into this, anyway? *aero*?
*info*?! What the heck else is there? It's *all* info."

On the bright side, maybe this will mean that ICANN shows itself to be
the arbitrary laughingstock everyone with any sense already thinks it is,
and we can move on to sensible things like xdns or what-have-you...

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