ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

[zaid at zaidali.com (Zaid Ali)]

On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Joel Barnard" <jbarnard at nwic.ca>
> 
>> I hope they've considered what will happen if you go to
>> http://localhost/ or
>> http://pcname/
>> 
>> Is that the local networks pcname, or the gTld pcname?
>> Are we going to have to start using a specially reserved .local gTld?
> 
> No, of *course* ICANN didn't give any engineering thought to it.  Cause the
> engineers?  Are all *here*.  And David Conrad's apparently the only guy
> who's heard about it.  :-)


I have seen many NANOG folks at ICANN meetings discussing this and also active on ALAC so David isn't the only guy. Also do a search on the list and you will find threads dating back.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.operators.nanog/56728/match=gTLDs

Zaid