Re: The .art TLD again: E-Flux are soliciting support for their bid.

2012-06-24 Thread Florian Cramer
> This seems to me to be a rather blatant power grab on the part of the > E-Flux crew. The E-Flux service (which may or may not be non-profit) A postscript to that: In ICANN's domain application database, e-flux is listed as an LLC (Limited Liability Company) with Anton Vidokle as "Founder and CE

Re: Fwd: The .art TLD again: E-Flux are soliciting support for their bid

2012-06-24 Thread Felix Stalder
The whole thing strikes me as utterly irrelevant, except for those who want to make a career or a business in some arcane layers of art administration connected to large institutional players. Art-Agenda wrote: The structure of the internet is about to shift in such a way that most informati

Re: The .art TLD again: E-Flux are soliciting support for their bid

2012-06-24 Thread Morlock Elloi
The rule of the thumb appears to be that anyone deriving income via ICANN is ultimately a crook. After .art is cashed in, we will have: .realart .postmodern .abstract .digitalart .kunst .modern .miro Or maybe you will trust them, again, that they won't do it? ICANN simply figured out how to sn

Re: Fwd: The .art TLD again: E-Flux are solicitingsupport for their bid

2012-06-24 Thread Calin Dan
Geert, e-flux's commercial agenda is clear, and consistent with its fast trajectory from a free announcements list targeting the art "community" to a world-wide distributed art-events information service charging substantial fees per announcement. If anything, e-flux is/will be interesting for