Apple Farmers, Unite!? — .LOL, .ROFL, .LMFAO…

ICANN apparently intends to sell strings to the highest bidder

Does this mean that apples will no longer refer to fruit, but only to fashionable computers? What is an apple farmer to do, if he/she is outbid by a multinational computer company?

The New Market for …

So there are plenty of 3- or 4-letter words that could become markets for a wide range of goods & services — who will regulate the trades (or will there be no regulation whatsoever)?

This could become very amusing very fast….

(for additional background, please see the BBC news article)

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