[NA-Discuss] Pre-registration of gTLDs

John R. Levine johnl at iecc.com
Tue Aug 9 22:18:15 UTC 2011


> Reaching for a parallel, it's like waiting in line for 2 days at the Apple
> store for that new Ipad to land......then you get to the counter and
> sonofagun, they done run out!

More like you get go the counter and they have rubber squeeze toys that 
sort of look like iPads.

Remember, even if the gTLD for which someone is accepting pre-regs is 
accepted by ICANN, there's no reason to assume that a registration in it 
would be of any value to a user, and plenty of reasons to assume 
otherwise.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly

PS: Ask me about the vast fame and traffic I get from my .AERO and .TRAVEL 
and .BIZ and .INFO domains.  Not.



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