Well spotted before it becomes an issue. Are we revisiting this ccTLD business that was concluded in year 2005? It was to protect the ccTLD for the sovereign States. What about <.tv> ..? Rgds Yassin
From: roberto@icann.org To: at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:35:58 +0200 Subject: Re: [At-Large] .CO user confusion?
It might be useful also to revise the discussions we had for .cm, in particular wrt the wildcard. Cameroun was used betting on typos on the TLD, using the wildcard to redirect the requests. Roberto
-----Original Message----- From: at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2010 18:06 To: At-Large Worldwide Subject: [At-Large] .CO user confusion?
Following on a conversation I've had with a concerned user, my eyebrow has been raised by the potential for user confusion in the re-launch of .CO which advertises its use not as a ccTLD, but as a gTLD. Whilst I know that this is not the first time a ccTLD is being marketed as a gTLD and I personally don't mind it at all (some communities have been able to subsidise local Internet access thanks to this), the omission of the last letter in a domain is possibly one of the more common typo errors out there, and since this is a user issue, I ask whether At Large should address this to ask ICANN to make recommendations to the .CO registry to avoid potential phishing? (best practice etc.) Perhaps .CO has already implemented safeguards in the .CO application process which take care of this?
Warm regards,
Olivier
-- Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
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