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Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names

  • From: Roland Dobbins
  • Date: Sun Apr 01 23:25:23 2007
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On Apr 1, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Douglas Otis wrote:

Reacting to new domains after the fact is often too late.

What happens when they're wrong?

And who's 'they', btw? What qualifications must 'they' have? And what happens if a registrar disagrees with 'them'? Or when 'they' are instructed by their governments to objection to a domain because of its perceived lack of redeeming social value, or somesuch?

It seems to me as if we've just talked through the institutionalization of the Department of Domain Pre-Crime, with all that entails. It could be argued that the proposed solution might be worse than the problem it's purporting to solve.

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