You're comparing two different situations, though:
In your case, the people in the hotel that is doing the blocking will be the
ones experiencing the problems. They notice that they can't reach
1-8xx-xxx-xxxx, so they call up the hotel management and yell. Hotel
management calls the person in charge of their PBX, and the problem would be
fixed. I could be wrong (hey, I'm in the DNS business, not the PSTN), but I
can't imagine the 1-8xx number calling the hotel and getting the impression
that the 1-8xx number's provider has problems...
In the 69.0.0.0/8 case, though, the problem is bidirectional. You have
people whose ISP/firewall/etc blocks access to 69.0.0.0/8 - presumably, if
they can't reach some box on 69.0.0.0, they'll yell at their ISP (and, most
likely, at the operator of the thing they're trying to reach, too, but said
operator can tell them to yell at their ISP). But, you also have people on
69.0.0.0 who aren't able to reach other sites due to filtering on the other
end, and those people are likely to yell at their ISP and blame their ISP
for something the ISP can't fix.
That second situation, I think, is the situation that this thread is about,
and your hotel analogy doesn't address that.
With the hotel analogy, basically, the people affected are the ones who have
the relationship with the operator of the broken piece of hardware, not the
ones with the 1-8xx number (though, if you want to be picky, you could argue
they might lose a bit of business to this).
With the 69.x.x.x situation, the people affected are the ones with the 69 IP
space, and they don't have a relationship with whoever has the misconfigured
hardware.
Maybe moving the GTLD servers would be overkill... But certainly, the idea
of asking Google or Yahoo to move seems like a good one. If people can't
reach Google or Yahoo, they'll make their ISP look into the issue, and fix
their filters.
A random comment now I have been dragged into this thread: this issue is not
new with 69.0.0.0/8. When we first got a block from 66.* from an ISP about
two years ago, we had problems too with various people (mostly end users,
though, I think) firewalling 66.*, and yet ARIN had been assigning 66.*
blocks for probably a year or so before we got that IP space. Fortunately
for us, though, most problems seemed to be people who wanted to reach us not
being able to, and not us not being able to reach sites we wanted to talk
to. Still, I suspect the Linux Firewall HOWTO was in large part responsible
for the problems we had...
Vivien