[IP] ICANN: progress on new gTLDs

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Delivered-To: dfarber+@ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 09:48:55 -0500
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
Subject: Re: [IP] ICANN: progress on new gTLDs
To: Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
Cc: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>

> >ICANN listens: new gTLD process will begin.  sTLD process seems to be
> >expanding and broadening.

Perhaps they should be paying attention to the operations of the gTLDs
that already exist: for example, a large, and growing, number of sites
are simply blocking all mail which originates from domains in ".biz",
because it's absolutely brimming with spammers and NeuLevel (putatively in
charge of it) absolutely refuses to do anything about it.  (Predictable,
of course: were they to act responsibly by permanently confiscating and
disabling spammer's domains, that would (a) take some work on their part
and (b) cut into their profits.)

A quick check of the local blocklist shows 1945 spammer-operated ".biz"
domains in it as of this morning.  I'm sure that's only a fraction of
the real number.  And this is but one example.

---Rsk 

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