Hi Greg
Thanks for your response. I am sorry that I was unclear. For me second level is totally different from first level, as there are so many possibilities today to have a name, be it geographical or purely generic, at second level, since there are so many
TLDs now, after 2012. And it will be impossible for one «word» to register under all TLDs.
As there will be only one applicant that can have the same word at first level, as TLD, in my view
france.com and .france are different.
Kindly
Annebeth
Annebeth B Lange
Special Adviser International Policy
UNINETT Norid AS
Phone: +47 959 11 559
I’m well aware of the scope of the WG. However, we don’t operate in a vacuum, and this case is both relevant and instructive — in terms of issues and arguments and for outcomes.
Greg
It is also a reminder of the level of bullying that some governments are capable of doing in this space and their disregard for the legitimate rights of others to use words in the DNS. This is a serious concern -- to see
such little regard for the freedom of expression rights to use words with a geographic meaning. Absent an actual internationally agreed legal rule that holds people can’t use the word “France” or other words with geographic meanings, it would be a huge mistake
for ICANN to adopt such an anti-innovation and pro-censorship position in domain name policy as demanded by some govts here.
Great, lets keep it limited. But thanks Greg for reminding us where we can end up.. some supported two-letter second level domain names that correspond to cctlds to go to governments and cctld
managers in new gtlds. Some of those were generic pronouns like in and it. But no one had mercy on generic names and no justifiable reason was given other than oh governments own everything when it comes to their cctld... or at least can claim ownership. The
irony? Some of those cctld managers are actually private companies benefiting handsomely from this.
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