I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

[nenolod at systeminplace.net (William Pitcock)]

On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 14:42 -0400, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
> But I do take your point about .co/.com, and in all fairness, it is a 
> decade delayed favor returned by NeuStar to Verisign for the .bz/.biz 
> "collaborative marketing" ploy of 2001. 

Or eNom's .cc/.com ploy from 1999-present.  Don't you remember the
television ad buy they did on all of the networks?  Rednecks dancing
around playing fiddles singing about ".cc".  On the other hand, at least
they weren't showing soft porn like GoDaddy does.

William