On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 11:24 +0200, Mickey Coggins wrote:

John Morgan Salomon wrote:

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For those two of you who haven't seen it yet,

http://www.icann.org/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/tel-telnic.htm

Funny that the company and the sponsoring one are the same but list themselves as different entities.

ICANN doesn't know about e164.org yet I guess.

I'm sure it will be wildly successful like the .aero TLD.

Of course it will: i.live.in.the.biggest.luxury.suite.in.my.own.ho.tel. has.cable-tv.in.a.mo.tel. wants.to.have.the.numberof.your.na.tel. give.me.cookies.or.ill.tel.

Ah bloody, I am not so good at these things, check these and adapt: http://www.garion.org/spamcalc/test/sorted06.txt

Or otherwise said: some companies are going to make quite some money out of selling silly names which they store in a database.

Another use: http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/2004/32678.htm aka the "Terrorist Exclusion List", one could thus use .tel as a blacklist, well there are of course enough terrorist in this world when you are looking from the US perspective. .terrorist coming soon :)

Greets, Jeroen

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:21 +0200, Mickey Coggins wrote:

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Another use: http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/fs/2004/32678.htm aka the "Terrorist Exclusion List", one could thus use .tel as a blacklist, well there are of course enough terrorist in this world when you are looking from the US perspective. .terrorist coming soon :)

Brilliant idea - create .ter and then all the evil guys would use that TLD, then the good guys could easily catch them. Gee, the world is black and white, after all. :-)

Just like .xxx this is really going to work :)

I *would* have sort of understood a .kids, .friendly or a .prudent domain actually. Then when those domains got monitored really well those sites could really be 'friendly' to kids and other such types. .xxx is not going to cut it, I guess ICANN didn't read RFC3675... http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3675.txt

Greets, Jeroen

Hi

Just like .xxx this is really going to work :)

I *would* have sort of understood a .kids, .friendly or a .prudent domain actually. Then when those domains got monitored really well those sites could really be 'friendly' to kids and other such types. .xxx is not going to cut it, I guess ICANN didn't read RFC3675... http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3675.txt

I like OpenNIC's .geek :)

http://www.opennic.unrated.net/tlds.html

Daniel