Um, see where they made very good rhetorical use of .cat and .mil too..... :-) Sometime back I attempted a deliberate provocation by asking in context of .cat which is delegated to all things Catalan why should I be disenfranchised if I had a yen to reprise cat worship and had the desire to establish a no less worthy online identity? The free exercise of religion thing and the......um, guess it was too subtle..... -Carlton ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 *Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* ============================= On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:

Google has promised, in a letter to Fadi, that if it gets custody of certain strings considered to be closed generics, it will make subdomains under them publicly available. It probably will not, however, use the traditional indirect channel of going through registrars.

This is exactly the kind of hybrid approach anticipated by the ALAC statement on the issue, and why I believed it prudent not to reject the concept out of hand.

http://m.techcrunch.com/2013/03/09/if-it-gets-them-google-may-open-search-ap...

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