Yes, I also agree with Tin -- and one of the many examples showing the
mess in people's heads (even the ones participating in the debate)
regarding the simple mnemonic to locate a set of Internet services
called TLD is a comment to one of the good articles in the Internet
Governance Project.

The commentator typed http://pg and got right into the main Procter &
Gamble site. His conclusion? That P&G has managed somehow to circumvent
the entire discussion, procedures and staff manouvering within Icann
and, with the probable help of Rod himself, got its own brand TLD! He
was using Firefox (great!) and the Google semantic engine behind it just
mapped the URL to www.pg.com, of course... If that person typed
http://canon instead and saw our discussion, he would certainly be
puzzled...

--c.a.

Milton L Mueller wrote:
> Another example - a hilarious one - of why we can't assume that a domain name string represents ownership of a concept. 
> I would agree with Tin Wee - Oui, oui!
> 
>> It is therefore not an English word, just as my name has 
>> nothing to do with suntan or tin cans or anyone's wee wee 
>> -just a transliteration of the phonetics of a southern 
>> chinese pronunciation of the chinese name Chen Dingwei.
>> Bestrgds
> 
> Milton Mueller
> Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
> XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
> ------------------------------
> Internet Governance Project:
> http://internetgovernance.org

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