Re: The IANA's File of iTLD Requests

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Thu, 5 Dec 1996 postel@ISI.EDU wrote:

> The following are suggestions or claims or maybe jokes about top level

> .AMOUR    LIST  15 Jul 1996 12:28:40  Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
> .FEMME    LIST  15 Jul 1996 12:28:40  Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
> .HORNY    LIST  15 Jul 1996 12:28:40  Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
> .HOT      LIST  15 Jul 1996 12:28:40  Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
> .HOTXXX   LIST  15 Jul 1996 12:28:40  Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
> .LOVE     LIST  15 Jul 1996 12:28:40  Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
> .SEX      LIST  15 Jul 1996 12:28:40  Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
> .SEXY     LIST  15 Jul 1996 12:28:40  Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
> .SILLY    LIST  15 Jul 1996 12:28:40  Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
> .SPAM     LIST  15 Jul 1996 12:28:40  Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
> .XXX      LIST  15 Jul 1996 12:28:40  Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
> .XXXHOT   LIST  15 Jul 1996 12:28:40  Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>

*blush*

Just to demonstrate that Jon really does mean "joke" when he says "joke"
up there, let me post the message thes came from. I have NO intention
of applying for or running any of these TLD's and never did.

>From michael@memra.com Thu Dec  5 13:22:56 1996
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:28:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: newdom@iiia.org
Subject: Re: Registry Status and Schedules

On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Richard J. Sexton wrote:

> 	a) IANA has to decide who gets .sex

Sounds good to me. Anybody who is building a business plan around
registering domains in .sex is NUTS! Take a look at industry statistics.
Is the sex industry even on the map? Not likely. If you want to make money
registering domains then you will need to cater to the market that has
money to spend. To think that a bunch of fly-by-night phone sex operations
will sustain a registry is ludicrous.

Besides, there are enough other possibilities besides .sex, .xxx, .love,
.amour, .sexy, .femme, .hotxxx .xxxhot, .hot, .horny, .silly ...

Speaking of .silly, who's going to go after .spam?

If this kind of veiled threat of lawsuits continues then I expect that the
ILPF with their Notice of Inquiry will prevail and nobody at all will get
.sex.



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