One asks whether the Foundation would've asked for a .wikimedia tld when ICANN had that application period open (provided we actually could've afforded funds to pay the huge fees required).
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/20/2014 04:51 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > > TLD proliferation is a scam by money-hungry registrars who want people to > > register (and thus pay) in multiple TLDs to "protect their brands". > > Well, the ostensible pretext is that .com. is now ridiculously > overloaded with myovercomplicateddomain.com because all the meaningful > "short" names are taken, and this is supposed to allow you to register > in the "right" TLD only. > > Of course, that's not going to happen in practice as every TLD will be > populated by all the people with .com domains for that reason. *sigh* > > Back in the days when I had "hack.com", I refused to pay money for it to > Internic when they started to charge money (thanks, P&G!) as a sign of > protest. Fat lot of good that did me -- or the dns. > > -- Marc > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
