On 12/07/2013 14:16, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > The DNS is going to go dotless. That is inevitable when people are > paying a quarter million dollars to get a dotless domain from ICANN. > Trying to control the situation with contractual language assumes that > ICANN is going to forgo large amounts of revenue over a technical concern. Not without a fight with at least one of its advisory committees. http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/alac/2013/003232.html IMO, given the Advice, it would be unwise for ICANN to move forward with dotless domains as it stands today. Kind regards, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond ALAC Chair