what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs)

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:04:19 EDT, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Mezei?= said:

> Say I am a pastry chef, and I pay $40 per year for "pastry.com", I got
> it because I signed up early and now cherish my domain name. I am a
> small business.
> 
> But now, some rich guy can come in and bid for .pastry

This will prove interesting for users who are still using browsers that will
automagically prepend 'www.' and append '.com'.. :)
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