I wasn't too keen on their info page regarding .usa either, but it was somewhat amusing to read through their terms and conditions and find an anti-pornography clause (especially as they were accepting pre-registrations for .xxx). For now, let's just remain alert --- On Sun, 6/5/11, Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com> wrote: From: Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Pre-registrations To: "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@yahoo.com> Cc: na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org, "Garth Bruen at Knujon.com" <gbruen@knujon.com> Date: Sunday, June 5, 2011, 10:41 PM Well, I'm gratified to see that .nyc is the top geographic tld and #6 over all. :) I'm not sure their info page on it accurately reflects respondents to the city's RFP however, and mid 2012 is *very* optimistic. https://www.uniteddomains.com/new-top-level-domain/nyc-domain-registration/ What are you suggesting be done, Danny? j On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Danny Younger <dannyyounger@yahoo.com> wrote: We've had issues with new TLD pre-registration activities and scams going all the way back to 2000 when the FTC needed to post a consumer alert. Problems re-surfaced when .eu was on the horizon, and now I see that the new gTLD pre-registration games have begun. See https://www.uniteddomains.com/ntld/pre-register-new-domains It looks like we'll need to start carefully monitoring these developments. ------ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss Visit the NARALO online at http://www.naralo.org ------ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -