The front-end of Netcom.cm: https://www.netcom.cm/login.jsp Nice. Certificate's invalid, too. Yo, RBN! Pitch a tent! and are we shocked by: http://newsroom.mcafee.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=3600 Also, as for .co, what about consumers who might think it represents a variation on the .co(.uk) second-level domain? -----Original Message-----

From: Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> Sent: Jul 30, 2010 3:29 PM To: At-Large Worldwide <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [At-Large] .CO user confusion?

On 30 July 2010 15:00, Christopher Wilkinson <cw@christopherwilkinson.eu>wrote:

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Oh! So we have passed without comment on .tv, .la, .to, .nu, no doubt among a few others, then why are we piling in on .co, now?

There are two quite distinct issues mentioned in this thread:

The issue of .co being more confused with .com than other TLDs doesn't concern me.

The other topic raised concerns ccTLDs acting like gTLDs without bearing the obligations of gTLDs (and more generally, my observation that the CCs appear to exist in a parallel universe, being involved with ICANN when it suits them and thumbing their nose at ICANN when there's the least irritation). This has been a constant source of concern to me, and is no stronger or weaker because of the action of .CO (and less recently, .ME, and other others before it).

The seeds of today's situation were planted long before the start of my involvement with ICANN, and I can't speak of why the public advocates of the day didn't press the issue back then. To me, this particular point of real unfairness seems like one of the nastier of ICANN's many unspoken issues. And indeed, here is Christopher objecting to the very discussion of the issue -- I consider that truly offensive.

The fact that a poor state of affairs was allowed to happen in the past does not make the situation less poor now. And it certainly does not give anyone the right to object to the mere discussion of the how bad it is, simply because it wasn't discussed before.

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