See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNames
On January 20, 2022 at 11:16 nanog@nanog.org (Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG)
wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 10:29 AM james.cut...@consultant.com <
> james.cut...@consultant.com> wrote:
>
> As in any other company, the Marketing Department has to find some
> activity
> to prove their worth.
>
>
> I don't think you realize just how much effort you have to put into finding a
> vaguely pronounceable .com domain in today's world.
> Marketing probably spent months asking the tech staff to do whois lookups for
> them until they found something vaguely marketable.
>
> I'm sure we'll eventually get back to AOL keyword searches and let anyone
> register any random TLD they want. Just email aaron@isawesome.
> What? No .com?
> Nope.
> What's your website?
> Just type the keyword..er...domain 'isawesome' into your browser.
>
> -A
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