.anything ??? Big vote for ICANN

Anybody else see this? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7475279.stm

This could really shake things up and open up a whole new realm of domains.

What does anybody think? I can see the pro's and con's and can't really decide which side of the fence I am on.

 

I think it's a bad idea..

I hope it doesn't go through but I guess we just have to wait and see.

 

This is only good to cybersquatters.
We have enough of extensions to register already..

 

people got used to .com/org/net/info and country codes if you ask a regular msn/email/inet user they dont even know what .mobi and .biz is. Its just for the cybersquatters since the main majority of the internet users dont give a damn

 

it could be a good business opportunity, though. Imagine if you owned .sale or .buy and were able to sell domains exclusively with those extensions as a domain registrar.

 

Yeah, that's what's gonna happen, and also I reckon the ridiculously high prices normally paid for relatively nice domains are gonna go through the floor.

 

Yes it'll dominate the general tld market.

 

tm holder will have a harder time securing their name for every possible extension
or they could just sit and wait till one of their tm developed by someone else and sue their ass off