Please note the term NGO has no generally agreed legal definition.
True, but the Red Cross and the IOC are both international treaty organizations. That's why they get to register in .INT. Those are pretty well defined. I agree that the existing objection process should take care of any funny registrations, or if not, the gTLD process has worse problems than .REDCROSS. By the way, in the United States, RED CROSS is the registered trademark for a brand of table salt (since 1895), for a brand of sterile cotton for medical purposes (since 1898), for a brand of womens' shoes (since 1898), for a brand of toothache drops (since 1876), for a brand of mattresses (since 1904), and for a brand of canned fruits and vegetables (since 1876.) Under ICANN's wonderful trademark rules, don't they get priority over some wussy non-profit? R's, John http://www.cargill.com/salt/brands/red-cross/index.jsp http://www.jnjredcross.com/medical-wound-tape-bandages http://www.haband.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/products.detail/categoryID/cad3e1... http://us.mentholatum.com/oral.aspx Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly