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["Daniel Quintiliani" <danq AT runbox.com>]

Is ICANN planning on adding more TLDs or did they realize the whole thing was 
a failure? Plenty of small businesses are only using social networking sites 
now, and the only "new TLD" I can think of ever using is "mywaifulist.moe" 
(an anime fan site and Discord server).

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-Dan Q

On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:12:07 -0800, Niles Rogoff <nilesrogoff AT gmail.com> 
wrote:

> The biggest reason to limit them is that ICANN might create that tld and
> we would be in the .free situation all over again.
> 
> 
> On 12/22/2017 06:09 PM, Jonah Aragon wrote:
> > I’m in strong favor of increasing the amount of TLDs we operate, there’s 
> > no
> > reason to limit them, it’s an arbitrary restriction some people enjoy
> > placing on our network. I am definitely opposed to people just coming out
> > of the blue and thinking they can just get a TLD however, because it
> > actually requires some effort and long-term planning—TLDs are supposed to
> > last forever, and frankly with the latest submissions I’ve seen, I don’t
> > have strong faith in these operators to stick around if/when they get
> > bored.
> >
> > That being said, I’d be happy to approve more TLDs, I just want some kind
> > of proof that the operators doing these proposals will actually be able to
> > deliver.
> >
> > Jonah
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 8:02 PM Daniel Quintiliani <danq AT runbox.com> 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Indeed, everyone and their brother wants a TLD now. I mean it's a good
> >> thing we have increased interest in OpenNIC, but before proposing TLDs we
> >> need the infrastructure and commitment per our recent votes on policy
> >> changes.
> >>
> >> It sounds like this person wants multiple TLDs, but perhaps instead of
> >> voting one-by-one he should list the remaining TLD ideas he has into a
> >> single discussion thread, and have a single voting thread where we vote 
> >> on
> >> each TLD. Anyone agree that's a better idea?
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> -Dan Q
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:54:51 -0800, <vv AT cgs.pw> wrote:
> >>
> >>> To me there is no practical logic to creating any
> >>> more TLDs. People like to create them, and the pleasure
> >>> they get from that seems to be what it's about. I do
> >>> support that, but we certainly don't need any more
> >>> TLDs. There are plenty of domains still available
> >>> on the TLDs we have and in reality they can be used for
> >>> anything you want. To me the bottom line is that we have
> >>> yet to get anything to take off and be viable as an
> >>> alternative to the ICANN net. It is only our DNS which
> >>> is a great success.
> >>>
> >>> ~ Ole
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 23:10:22 +0000
> >>> Wyndcomm Enterprises <dima22443 AT gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Could you tell me please if it will be logicaly to create
> >>>> planets’ TLDs ? Kind regards,
> >>>> Shchurov Dmitrii
> >>>> Tel: +79533487679
> >>>> Skype: scdimaspb
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