The registries are telling everyone that DNAME is the greatest innovation in the world, but giving Verisign every multilingual iteration of .COM and .NET is something I think we should push hard against. Yes, it means that if I want "BRET" in the Chinese version of NET, I'll need to register again, but I view the Chinese version of NET, whatever it might be, as a separate TLD. On Jul 2, 2007, at 7:25 AM, John L wrote:
If there is some interest in allowing aliases, I will submit a statement to that effect.
I gather that there is great pressure in some quarters to grandfather aliases for gTLDs so that Verisign would get every name that means "business" or "network" in any language, Tralliance would get every name that means "travel", and so forth. Since silence means consent at ICANN (and as often as not, loud screaming opposition means consent anyway), it would be a good idea to say explicitly whether we think that's a good idea and why not.
Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex- Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
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