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RE: Statements against new.net?

  • From: Roeland Meyer
  • Date: Wed Mar 14 06:56:58 2001 
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 11:57 PM

> Actually, I'm enamoured of someone's idea to just blackhole 
> new.net and
> let them figure out how to sort that.  Saves me a whole lot 
> of trouble, I
> just get to ask the customer where they got the idea that 
> .xxx was a valid
> tld.  
> 
> If we all do that (And yes I can see a significant [10%+] 
> fraction of this
> group's readership doing it), then the problem goes away 
> soon.  An elegant
> fix, except that new.net would probably sue anyone who 
> blackholed them...

Indeed they would. It is even likely that they'd win. Such action wouldn't
win ICANN any favours in Congress either.