I'm interested. What can we (I) do to help?
If ICANN ever deals with the constipation in the TLD process, this would be a perfectly reasonable candidate to be one of the next thousand domains. In the current environment where you need to spend $100K to apply, lobby, schmooze, make legal threats, etc., I just don't see where the money's coming from. I'd rather work on the underlying problem that there's no new TLD process than try to pick ones to push through the existing non-process. R's, John
-----Original Message----- From: na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Danny Younger Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:27 PM To: NA Discuss Subject: [NA-Discuss] Proposal for North American Indigenous TLD
A proposal has been fielded for a new gTLD for the North American Indigenous community (.nai) -- details at http://wampum.wabanaki.net/vault/2008/04/004460.html
This appears to be an effort spearheaded by Eric Brunner-Williams who earlier in DNSO Working Group C proposed the TLD .naa (a gTLD scoped to North America and the territories, trusts and treaty dependencies of the United States and Canada, and delegated to the designates of the National Congress of American Indians/Assembly of First Nations) -- see http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/19991023.NCwgc-report.html
It looks like Eric is currently affiliated with CORE, (and he has had prior experience with the gTLD submission process via the SWITCH .org proposal).
Some in the NARALO may wish to assist in this effort. The primary obstacle, of course, will be the cost of the the ticket to the ICANN Ball.
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