Hi,
I happened to meet Desiree last night and therefore think that her mail does not explain the issue as well as she did in our conversation. Our old 'friend' ICANN (Ted, we miss your comments on that;-) is releasing new generic Top Level Domains. It is posible that some business interests would grab .art to make a lot of money from already suffering artists. So Desiree was wondering if it was possible to launch a last minute bid to mobilise people really interested in and involved in art. Maybe the necessary application fee could be crowdsourced and maybe an art friendly internet business could be found to manage the gTLD. Desiree's business model is, if I have understood that right, once the domain starts generating profits to channel that back to artists in need. Good idea. Of course for some on this list this will trigger memories of namespace etc. cheers Armin On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 23:59 +0000, Desiree Miloshevic wrote: > Hi > > There is a limited opportunity to apply for dotART domain name by April 12. > <....> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
