Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

["Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/12/13 12:24 PM, "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <hallam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Unfortunately the IAB is not going to give that advice. They seem to have passed on advising ICANN not to issue .corp which is going to be a total security meltdown.

The report at http://www.icann.org/en/groups/ssac/documents/sac-057-en.pdf is relevant here (though obviously it is an SSAC document and not an IAB document, which I think is part of the point you may be making).

It's not 20 pieces of silver at stake here is a quarter million bucks or more a pop.

FWIW, I think for most larger companies with multi-billion dollar revenues streams it is less about the up-front fees to apply & operationalize a gTLD than the long term business potential. 

Jason