Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

2013-07-13 Thread Livingood, Jason
There must be something similar to Godwin's Law whereby any IETF discussion can devolve into a debate over NAT. ;-) Jason On 7/12/13 10:13 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.commailto:hal...@gmail.com wrote: Keith, read my words, I choose them more carefully than you imagine. solves their

Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

2013-07-13 Thread Dave Crocker
On 7/13/2013 7:25 AM, Livingood, Jason wrote: There must be something similar to Godwin's Law whereby any IETF discussion can devolve into a debate over NAT. ;-) It's not devolution, it's translation into our private context. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net

Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

2013-07-13 Thread Livingood, Jason
On 7/12/13 12:24 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.commailto:hal...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately the IAB is not going to give that advice. They seem to have passed on advising ICANN not to issue .corp which is going to be a total security meltdown. The report at

Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

2013-07-13 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Livingood, Jason jason_living...@cable.comcast.com FWIW, I think for most larger companies with multi-billion dollar revenues streams it is less about the up-front fees to apply operationalize a gTLD than the long term business potential. I guess I'm missing something.

Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

2013-07-13 Thread Arturo Servin
On 7/13/13 12:27 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Livingood, Jason jason_living...@cable.comcast.com FWIW, I think for most larger companies with multi-billion dollar revenues streams it is less about the up-front fees to apply operationalize a gTLD than the long term

Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

2013-07-13 Thread Hector Santos
All the discussion details are overwhelming but I do seem to feel there is a marketing and branding problem especially when it comes to searching a domain at the USER DATA ENTRY LEVEL, i.e. slow keyboard input. For example, I own WINSERVER.COM. Try typing WINSERVER in google (for the first

Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

2013-07-13 Thread John Levine
I guess I'm missing something. How exactly is having a gTLD going to bring in the Big Bucks? Do people actually type addresses into the address bars on their browsers any more, or do they just type what they're looking for into the search bar? Let's just say you're not allowed to ask that

Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

2013-07-13 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, July 13, 2013 16:28 + John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: I guess I'm missing something. How exactly is having a gTLD going to bring in the Big Bucks? Do people actually type addresses into the address bars on their browsers any more, or do they just type what they're

Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

2013-07-13 Thread Hector Santos
On 7/13/2013 11:27 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Livingood, Jason jason_living...@cable.comcast.com FWIW, I think for most larger companies with multi-billion dollar revenues streams it is less about the up-front fees to apply operationalize a gTLD than the long term

Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

2013-07-13 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jul 13, 2013, at 7:58 PM, Hector Santos hsan...@isdg.net wrote: Try typing out my domain, winserver.com. First timers will not get the WINSERVER.COM web site, but Microsoft's WIN SERVER 201x and/or WINDOWS SERVER web sites first. I did as you suggested earlier, and typed winserver, but

ipv6hackers Meeting in Berlin (July 30, 2013)

2013-07-13 Thread Fernando Gont
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FYI Folks, We finally put everything in place to announce the very first IPv6 Hackers meeting. All the relevant info is available at:: http://www.ipv6hackers.org/meetings/berlin-2013 - cut here IPv6 Hackers Meeting - Berlin 2013 **

Re: [IETF] Re: Regarding call Chinese names

2013-07-13 Thread Warren Kumari
On Jul 12, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Eric Burger ebur...@standardstrack.com wrote: I kept my maiden name, too. And I took my wife's last name when we married. This caused no end of confusion at the marriage office, with their Borland C Turbo Vision Text menu system app, with a space for a maiden

Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

2013-07-13 Thread Ofer Inbar
Reading some of this discussion leaves me puzzled because I can't tell which things that some people are saying are intended to be about dotless use of domains, or are intended to be about the expansion of top level domains in general. The IAB's statement does not seem to be about whether or not

Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

2013-07-13 Thread Tom McLoughlin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 It could just be me but something about http://example doesn't feel right, I'd rather have http://example.com over http://example Regards, Tom McLoughlin On 13/07/2013 21:11, Ofer Inbar wrote: Reading some of this discussion leaves me puzzled