Sotiris and all, Your right as far as GoDaddy is concerned, it appears. I am sure my friends in Canada find this as unsurprising and sleazy as I do. Sadly some of them ( users and Registrants ) have been tarnished as a result, as well as a result of ICANN's poor oversight along with DOC/NTIA's poor oversight of ICANN. I as an American, appologize to my fellow Canadians for the actions of a Sr. Executive of an American company for their sleazy and disgusting business practices. I hope that our good friends in Canada and everywhere will except my own personal appology for the actions of GoDaddy Inc. Not all American business operate in this ugly, sleasy and disgusting manner. Unfortunately GoDaddy has. >:( I am also fairly sure that if you check, which I and some of our members have, that GoDaddy is also most prolific registrar of Child Porn Domain Names as well. But I am sure DHS and USDOJ as well as DOC/NTIA haven't looked into that "Element" of the GoDaddy - ICANN relationship, eh? But we can all hope that someday they will. I only hope that the do so sometime in my lifetime, but I am even very doubtful of that... >:( sotiris@hermesnetwork.com wrote:

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http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/29/0625249

It's a looter's game after all, even with established and profitable business models...

Still waiting for you to explin howa .bank TLD will add value to the namespace.

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