[governance] ICANN stumbling on a hornet nest

Fahd A. Batayneh fahd.batayneh at gmail.com
Sun Sep 2 16:41:39 EDT 2012


I have already reviewed all applications and made 37 comments in total. A
very interesting process though.

Fahd

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Lee W McKnight <lmcknigh at syr.edu> wrote:

>   Only 4 comments on average per application?
>
> Internet lawyers and consultants have a growth market here clearly.
>
> And sure igcers should file comments early and often.
>
> Lee
>
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> *From:* governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [
> governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] on behalf of Salanieta T.
> Tamanikaiwaimaro [salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 01, 2012 2:37 PM
> *To:* governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Chaitanya Dhareshwar
> *Cc:* Louis Pouzin (well)
> *Subject:* Re: [governance] ICANN stumbling on a hornet nest
>
>    *Juliet:*
> "What's in a name? That which we call a rose
> By any other name would smell as sweet."
> Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)<http://www.enotes.com/romeo-text/act-ii-scene-ii#rom-2-2-45>
>
>  *Summary of Relevance<http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/what-s-name-that-which-we-call-rose>
> *
>
> "Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet meet and fall in love in Shakespeare's
> lyrical tale of "star-cross'd" lovers. They are doomed from the start as
> members of two warring families. Here Juliet tells Romeo that a name is an
> *artificial and meaningless convention*, and that she loves the person
> who is called "Montague", not the Montague name and not the Montague
> family. Romeo, out of his passion for Juliet, rejects his family name and
> vows, as Juliet asks, to "deny (his) father" and instead be "new baptized"
> as Juliet's lover. This one short line encapsulates the central struggle
> and tragedy of the play."
>
>
>  Clearly there are people squabbling over generic names, yes the "g" in
> gTLD is "generic" which means "Characteristic of or relating to a class
> or group". It would be great for those who have issues or comments to make
> them where they matter in terms of impact which is
> https://gtldcomment.icann.org/comments-feedback/applicationcomment/login
>
> The new Application Comment Window has been extended to an additional 45
> days which means it's open for comments till the 26th September, 2012.
>
> Sala
>
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Chaitanya Dhareshwar <
> chaitanyabd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wasn't that expected? And what about health and charity and city and
>> rugby and other absurdly broad TLDs like that.
>>
>>  I guess they're pretty much obliged to tread the fine line, and get
>> scratched on both sides. This won't be the end of it.
>>
>> -C
>>
>>   On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Louis Pouzin (well) <pouzin at well.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/internet/Domain-names-spark-dispute-among-religious-groups/articleshow/16130800.cms
>>>
>>> Today, more than 6600 complaints for 1931 gTLD applications
>>>
>>>
>>> https://gtldcomment.icann.org/comments-feedback/applicationcomment/viewcomments
>>>
>>>
>>> *Let's put up a $185K award for the last one !*
>>>
>>>
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