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Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

2013-07-12 16:54:12

On 12/07/2013 14:16, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
The DNS is going to go dotless. That is inevitable when people are
paying a quarter million dollars to get a dotless domain from ICANN.
Trying to control the situation with contractual language assumes that
ICANN is going to forgo large amounts of revenue over a technical concern.

Not without a fight with at least one of its advisory committees.
http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/alac/2013/003232.html

IMO, given the Advice, it would be unwise for ICANN to move forward with
dotless domains as it stands today.
Kind regards,

Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond
ALAC Chair