On Thu, 10 May 2001, Matt Prigge wrote:
> That makes me wonder. What happens if ICANN suddenly decides to release one
> of the TLDs you have already sold registrations for?
One of ICANNs primary mandates is to preserve Internet stability.
If ICANN decided TODAY to introducing names that conflict with the names
we have introduced, they run the risk of interfering with the user
experience of over 21,000,000 people. At the rate we are gaining adoption,
by the time they could reasonably add new TLDs the number of users they
would be affecting will be signficantly higher. Given their mandate
it wouldn't make any sense for them to do this.
> They wouldn't have to grant the TLD's to new.net would they?
Not at all.
> I may not understand the process by which ICANN does this (as I think
> many people don't),
Having been present, I'd argue that even ICANN doesn't understand it,
given the results. ;-)
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