>Roger Cochetti says:
>
>
>In other words, put into immediate effect a measure which is
>currently being hotly disputed and which runs directly counter to
>the interests of a large percentage of Internet users.
>
> > In the spirit of gaining new experience and as a reflection of the rapid
> > global growth of the Internet, we believe that it would make sense for the
> > new registry organization for ".shop", or whatever name is
>selected for such
> > an initial TLD, to be located in Europe.
>
>Europe has already decided upon its new TLD. It is to be .EU.
>Perhaps Mr. Cochetti could read a little and try to keep better
>abreast of events before insulting any further the millions of
>Internet users in Europe. And by the way, the Europeans have their
>own ideas about who will run their TLD registry, and I doubt very
>much if it's going to be Richard Foreman and Ken Stubbs.
>
rest assured Cochetti is following the bidding of john patrick and chris caine.
so this is how john patrick is gonna sell IBM 's e-commerce packages
in europe. big blue says no .eu for you guys
why cause our ecommerce program's gonna make you a generation ...yea
a continent of
.shop keepers
brilliant john, brilliant...step forward and take a bow.
ICANN sez no to .eu..... hooray for big blue.
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