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.

In GNSO IDN WG, I and a couple of others did speak loud against any attempt to create a "DNAME" model when ".info", "museum" and "asia" registries raised their "concerns" over confusing similarity. You can see from the WG Final Report that the DNAME argument was not accepted and confusing similarity does not cover "semantic similarity" as these registries wished. However, since IDN WG is now being melted into a new gTLD hot pot, that flavor is diluted and we return to the starting point--asking what confusingly similar is again.

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.

I guess the Chinese version could be "下誹蒙。利大" (Bret.net).

Hong

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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