ICANN considers a raffle for new top-level domains

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has proposed holding an old-fashioned raffle to determine which applications for new top-level domains should be handled first. To make the lottery legal, the organization hopes to use a loophole in Californian law. ICANN was planning to use a "Digital Archery" contest to determine which applications for a new Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD ...

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Hmmm interesting ...

Online raffles require some tricky "TOSing". By selling a "member" pre paid "$" and
then they can spend the "$" on "contests, games, etc ..." .... blah blah blah ..... I can't
remember all the details but I was looking @ doing something with domain here / com
and was discouraged by the raffle legal issues.

I think I'm more interested in the raffle "loophole model" ...... :undecided:


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