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</font>On Wednesday 13 June 2012 06:07 PM, CW Mail wrote:
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type="cite">Well, it looks like a wholesale attempt to privatise
hundreds of generic words in the English language.
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">From those who know better, I
will like to know whether the present new set of new tlds is of
unrestricted gtlds like .com etc, which I understand should be open for
anyone to register a web space under, and no discrimination can be made
(other then clear criteria of trademark etc) or are they all private
tlds that the owner can decide to do whatever about. If the latter,
such wholesale privatisation of language that CW speaks about is an
extremely serious issue.<br>
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No one can be given a gtld with a word/name for private use unless one
at least has an international trademark right to that word/name, in
which case too I am not sure whether one should be given such a tld for
private use, but that is a matter of relatively lower level concern. <br>
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Even while allocating generic tlds open for anyone to register,
competition policy may require to exclude such companies that have
clear vested interest in that particular bit of digital real estate
(and thus are more likely to indulgence in anti-competitive activities)
. The present list of applicants mostly consists of companies seeking
gtlds with names that clearly denote their core areas of business.
Doesnt look like promoting a competitive domain name space, which one
of the very few avowed public policy concerns of ICANN. <br>
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parminder </font><br>
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<div>On 13 Jun 2012, at 14:22, William Drake wrote:</div>
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<div>ICANN's numbers a bit revealing and arguably sad. Quoting the
1 pg overview:</div>
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<div>1930 applications, after refunds, for new generic top-level
domains.<br>
1846 of those are “standard” applications. 84 are designated as
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Of the 1930, 66 have designated themselves as geographic name
applications.<br>
116 applications are Internationalized Domain Names, or IDNs, using
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Just three applicants seek support through ICANN’s Applicant Support
Program [that CS fought to get established.]</div>
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Applications from 60 countries. Using ICANN’s definitions of the
world’s regions:</div>
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911 applications came from North America. </div>
<div>675 from Europe. </div>
<div>303 applications are from the Asia-Pacific region. </div>
<div>24 are from Latin America and the Caribbean. </div>
<div>17 from Africa.</div>
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Some domain names have been applied for by more than one applicant.
There are 230 domain names for which at least two applications were
submitted, involving a total of 751 applications.<br>
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<div>On Jun 13, 2012, at 1:07 PM, William Drake wrote:</div>
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