[governance] Reminder: The Big Reveal is in One Hour

[parminder]

On Wednesday 13 June 2012 06:07 PM, CW Mail wrote:
> Well, it looks like a wholesale attempt to privatise hundreds of 
> generic words in the English language.
>
> CW

 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.

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.

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.

parminder


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> On 13 Jun 2012, at 14:22, William Drake wrote:
>
>> http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en 
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>>
>> ICANN's numbers a bit revealing and arguably sad.  Quoting the 1 pg 
>> overview:
>>
>>
>> 1930 applications, after refunds, for new generic top-level domains.
>> 1846 of those are “standard” applications.  84 are designated as 
>> “community-based”.
>>
>> Of the 1930, 66 have designated themselves as geographic name 
>> applications.
>> 116 applications are Internationalized Domain Names, or IDNs, using 
>> non-Latin scripts.
>>
>> Just three applicants seek support through ICANN’s Applicant Support 
>> Program [that CS fought to get established.]
>>
>> Applications  from 60 countries. Using ICANN’s definitions of the 
>> world’s regions:
>>
>> 911 applications came from North America.
>> 675 from Europe.
>> 303 applications are from the Asia-Pacific region.
>> 24 are from Latin America and the Caribbean.
>> 17 from Africa.
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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.
>>
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>> On Jun 13, 2012, at 1:07 PM, William Drake wrote:
>>
>>> For those interested in new gTLD, a couple thousand apps for new 
>>> strings
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>>> http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/kits/reveal-day-video-13jun12-en.htm
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