Massive group forms to kill off new gTLDs

[the_poet]

Eighty-seven companies and trade groups have formed the Coalition for Responsible Internet Domain Oversight, a lobby group set up to kill ICANN’s “deeply flawed” top-level domains program.

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[Sparhawke]

Surprised to see J.C. Penney Company, Inc. in that list, weren't they in trouble a while back for certain black hat SEO techniques?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/business/13search.html?pagewanted=all

And now they are throwing their hat in to try to control what goes on with the internet no doubt...

 

[bmugford]

Adobe, Amex, Burger King, Coke, Costco, Dell, Ford, GE, HP, Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg, Nationwide, Nestle, Proctor & Gamble, Samsung, US Bank, etc.

Most major companies are seeing this for what it is - a solution to a problem that did not exist.

Take the TM issues that exist today and multiply it many times over.

Brad

 

[Corey]

it's all about money

Cheers
Corey

 

[enlytend]

Most major companies are seeing this for what it is - a solution to a problem that did not exist.

:bingo:

and I wish them the best of luck. It's a blatant ICANN money grab - doesn't add value and will just confuse people.

Surprised to see J.C. Penney Company, Inc. in that list, weren't they in trouble a while back for certain black hat SEO techniques?

It wasn't all that "black hat" - they had bought a lot of links and they got caught. Against Google's policies, and they got a penalty for it, but not like they were doing something really nasty like hacking to create links and send traffic to their site.

 

[Veronika11]

it's all about money

Cheers
Corey

isn't it always ?!