Um well, the timeline suggests these fellas are looking a ways down the road.

If one expects competitors and assuming the principals are sentient, whyever would this declaration now make sense?

In another area of practice of some familiarity, they call this action 'creating facts on the ground with verifiable spoor markings'.

Carlton

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On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 at 23:25, Justine Chew via CPWG <cpwg@icann.org> wrote:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/unstoppable-domains-blockchain-web3-domain-launch

Save, that I do not know where Unstoppable Domains and Blockchain.com got the notion of "ICANN’s hotly anticipated six-year registration program next year".

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