Um, well...seems to me that a partial removal of the current restriction might be appropriate here. May even help 'em survive the leaner times ahead. And by default, add a little competition to the space. I can see my way to let 'em register, for example, jm.post. I could sell that as a revenue-share opportunity or, as an extreme, preparatory for the day when your plain old letter-handling post office is no more. Notice this position is presumed on ccTLD cooperation. Need collaborative work from the start to design and agree the business process. Add .CAT to the list of those that might be considered....maybe. But right now I cannot see let 'em at .aero, .arpa, .museum, .com, .biz etc. Too gimmicky...and spammy. But I stand to be convinced. - Carlton ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 *Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* ============================= On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca>wrote:

.post is asking to be allowed to use 2nd level domains which match all of the TLDs. I presume that their specific interest is to be allowed to use the ccTLDs, giving them roots such as: .ca.post .uk.post .au.post and so forth, although it would also include all of the gTLDs (presumably current and future). The current list is at http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt.

Alan

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.post Agreement Amendment

9 April 2012

Forum Announcement: Comment Period Opens on Date: 9 April 2012 Categories/Tags: Contracted Party Agreements Purpose (Brief):

ICANN is posting today for public comment the Universal Postal Union (UPU) request to amend its Sponsorship TLD agreement to remove the requirement to reserve the "previously-reserved IANA domain strings" at the second level. This change in the agreement means that .post would be allowed to register, for example, biz.post, com.post, uk.post, etc. Comments may be submitted through 9 May 2012.

You may access the Public Forum < http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/post-amendment-2012-09apr12-en.h... here. Public Comment Box Link: < http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/post-amendment-2012-09apr12-en.h...

http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/post-amendment-2012-09apr12-en.h...

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