Re: [DNSOP] additional special names Fwd: I-D Action: draft-chapin-additional-reserved-tlds-00.txt

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> Mon, 03 February 2014 22:15 UTC

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On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 04:56:38PM -0500, Ted Lemon wrote:
> This is a useless discussion.   Recriminations do not change the past.

True, but effectively what you're saying is that this special-use
registry could be used by anyone who's prepared to [squat|use a TLD
without registering it] in the right ways to get around the ICANN
allocation procedures.  I think that's spelled "moral hazard" in
economics.

A

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