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ACTO Comments on the “Public Interest Commitment”regarding the attribution of the Dot Amazon Top Level Domain presented byAmazon Inc.
by Jenny Salazar Oct. 11, 2019

Oct. 11, 2019

Dear Sir/Madam, We kindly send the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization comments on the “Public Interest Commitment” regarding the attribution of the Dot Amazon Top Level Domain presented by Amazon Inc. The comments below are for publication in ICANN´s web page https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/base-agreement-contracting/spe…. We will apreciate to circulate the ACTO comments to the corresponding instances. Best regards, *ACTO* *Comments on the “Public Interest Commitment” regarding the attribution of the Dot Amazon Top Level Domain presented by Amazon Inc. * *Foreword* The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization reaffirms the Member Countries’ rejection of the 15 May 2019 decision of the ICANN Board that favored the private company Amazon Inc. on its request for delegation of the top level domain dot amazon. Therefore, the tabling of these comments can not be interpreted otherwise. Additionally, these comments shall be read as a reiteration of all the previous messages, letters, press comuniqués issued on this matter since the beginning of the process not only by ACTO’s Secretary General, but also by the Member Countries. It is important to underscore the “public policy advice of the Governmental Advisory Committee and the principle embodied in the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, that the policy authority for internet-related public policy issues is the sovereign right of the States”. *Comments* First of all it should be recalled that during the whole process ACTO and its Member Countries have engaged in good faith in the discussions, with a view to finding a mutually agreed solution. The company, on the other hand, showed no flexibility at all, seeming content on running out the clock as if certain that the ICANN Board would hit the gavel in its favor. The stance of ACTO Members has been to safeguard the dot amazon domain in order to protect and promote the Amazon region and its importance to the world. It is our duty to protect “the identity of the Amazon communities and the Amazon region, which has geographic, cultural, simbolic and natural heritage importance to the countries and peoples of the region”, having in mind that the word “Amazon” is internationally used to describe and characterize the Amazon region/basin/biome/river. This is a name with cultural and geographical significance that identifies an area worldly recognized for its ecosystemic functions, that helps sustain Earth’s climatic and environmental balance. With its almost 40 million inhabitants, including several indigenous tribes/peoples, the Amazon region stands for ethnic and cultural diversity, that adds to an enormous biodiversity. Under the Public Interest Commitment proposed by the company Amazon Inc., besides there being no commitment to sharing the governance of the TLD, no protection is afforded to a vast number of terms with public policy importance to the Amazon region, including terms that can cause confusion or mislead the public about matters specific to the Amazon region. For example: - words that denote mountains, valleys, rivers, streams, islands, or any other geographical features with significance that may be located in the Amazon, as well as their cognates in different languages; - words that denote animals, plants, medicinal herbs and other botanical products, or any other expressions of the Amazon biodiversity, as well as their cognates in different languages; - words that denote cities, towns, villages or any other human settlements in the Amazon region, as well as their cognates in different languages; - words that denote general economic, political or cultural activities, such as industry, hotel, tourism, ecotourism, travel, trip, government, education, university, study, research, party, and any other words employed to identify some broad spectrum of socio-economic and political practices or sectors, as well as their cognates in different languages; - words that denote popular festivals, folkloric manifestations, beliefs or religiosity of the Amazon populations, including entities, real or mythological beings related to these activities or manifestations, as well as their cognates in different languages. Therefore, the proposed PIC does not attend to the Amazon Countries public policy interests and concerns. Besides not being the result of a mutually acceptable solution dully endorsed by our countries, it fails to adequately safeguard the Amazon cultural and natural heritage against the the risks of monopolization of a TLD inextricably associated with a geographic region and its populations. *Request* ACTO Member Countries call upon the ICANN Board to not delegate the dot amazon TLD, since delegation as currently proposed would go against both the public interest and GAC’s public policy advice. Alternatively, the ICANN Board should allow further work between ACTO Member Countries and the applicant with a view to finding a mutually satisfactory solution. >From our part, having our April 18 2019 PIC proposal as a win-win baseline, we vow to respect the company’s legitimate commercial interests while safeguarding our principles and public policy concerns. *************************************************************** *Organización del Tratado de Cooperación Amazónica - OTCA* *SHIS QI 05, Conjunto 16, Casa 21* *Lago Sul, Brasilia - DF Brasil* *Tel. +55.61.32484119*

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Nota 4-7-047-2019 - EMBAIXADA DO EQUADOR
by DULCE GOMES Oct. 11, 2019

Oct. 11, 2019

Prezados Senhores, A Embaixada do Equador cumprimenta muito atenciosamente, e remete anexo Nota 4-7-047-2019 assinada pelo Embaixador do Equador, Sr. Diego Ribadeneira. Favor, solicitamos acusar recebido. Atenciosamente, Dulce Gomes *Embaixada do Equador no Brasil* SHIS QL 10 Conjunto 8 Casa1 Lago Sul - Brasília-DF (61) 3248-5660/ 3248-5560

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Comment by Brazil´s representative to GAC on .amazon application and PIC
by Achilles Emilio Zaluar Neto Oct. 9, 2019

Oct. 9, 2019

Dear Sir/Madam, Kindly receive the comments below on the application and PIC for .amazon presented on 12 September 2019. The comments below are for publication in ICANN´s web page https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/base-agreement-contracting/spe… and may be circulated with attribution. Yours truly, Achilles Zaluar Ambassador Department for Technological Promotion, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Brazil Brazil´s representative to GAC - ICANN Brazil's comments on the "PUBLIC INTEREST COMMITMENT" PROPOSED BY THE private COMPANY AMAZON INC. FOR the dot AMAZON TOP-LEVEL DOMAINS October 9, 2019 The participation of the Government of Brazil in this public consultation, or the comments provided herein, shall not be construed as implying Brazil's acceptance of the ICANN Board decision of 15 May 2019, published on 17 May 2019, which determined the continuation of the processing of the .AMAZON applications based on a proposal that is not acceptable to the Amazon countries, in contravention of the public policy advice of the Governmental Advisory Committee and of the principle, embodied in the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, that the policy authority for Internet-related public policy issues is the sovereign right of States. 1. Preliminary observations We recall that the top-level domain name ".AMAZON" refers to the identity of the Amazon communities and the Amazon region, which has geographic, cultural, symbolic and natural heritage importance to the countries and peoples of the region, and that the English cognate "AMAZON" is internationally used and recognized to describe and characterize the Amazon, as exemplified by its inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List, established in accordance with the 1972 Convention for the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage, and the creation of the "Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization" (ACTO). ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), by opposing the request for the ".AMAZON" top-level domains based on the objection procedure provided under the Applicant Guidebook 2012, as expressed in the Durban Communiqué (ICANN 47), recognized that the delegation of the top-level domain name ".AMAZON" to a single private company would be "problematic, e.g., potentially violate national law", and that the GAC, in the Abu Dhabi Communiqué (ICANN 60), recognized the need for a solution that is acceptable to the countries of the Amazon region as an indispensable condition for the delegation of the top-level domain name ".AMAZON". Public policy principles supporting the protection expressly granted to terms with geographical or cultural significance under ICANN rules, whose admission in the TLD name space has been conditioned upon support or approval by the respective public authorities, shall apply a fortiori to the .AMAZON domain names, which possess a geographical and cultural meaning associated with the Amazon region and populations, as explained in the 2018 ACTO Working Group Report on the .AMAZON applications, as well as recognized in the GAC's objection to the delegation of the .AMAZON strings except on the basis of a solution acceptable to the eight Amazon countries. The monopolization of the ".AMAZON" top-level domains, exclusively for private purposes and by a single corporate entity, would entail the "confiscation" of the entire name space semantically and inextricably associated with the region, the countries and the peoples of the Amazon. It would thus be in clear contradiction with the strong link between the term "Amazon" and the region, the countries and the peoples of the Amazon, their natural and cultural heritage and their identity on the Internet. The delegation of the ".AMAZON" top-level domains exclusively to a private interest, to be operated as a closed brand top-level Domain, as proposed by the applicant company on April 17, 2019, would not serve the public interest, in particular that of safeguarding and promoting the natural, cultural and symbolic heritage of the countries and peoples of the Amazon, based on public policies for the Internet developed by the governments of the region. *** 2. Objection to the proposed PIC: definition of ""terms that have a primary and well-recognized significance to the Culture and Heritage specific to the Amazonia Region". The Public Interest Commitment proposed by the private company Amazon Inc. is built around the concept of "terms that have a primary and well-recognized significance to the Culture and Heritage specific to the Amazonia Region". It sets out that the company (a) will not use as domain names in the .AMAZON TLDs terms "that have a primary and well-recognized significance to the Culture and Heritage specific to the Amazonia Region"; (b) will let Amazon countries use a maximum of nine (9) domain names in the .AMAZON TLDs consisting of "only those terms that have a primary and well-recognized significance to the Culture and Heritage specific to the Amazonia Region"; and (c) will block from all use in the .AMAZON TLDs a list of up to 1500 domain names "that have a primary and well-recognized significance to the Culture and Heritage specific to the Amazonia Region". In an Appendix incorporated to the Public Interest Commitment, however, the company indicates that the terms with the required significance to the Culture and Heritage specific to the Amazonia region only include six (6) specific terms (the words "OTCA", "culture", "heritage", "forest", "river", "rainforest"), and the names of indigenous groups and of national symbols[1] of the Amazon countries: "For purposes of this Policy, "Culture and Heritage specific to the Amazonia region" means the names of indigenous peoples' groups, and national symbols of the countries in the Amazonia region, and the specific terms OTCA, culture, heritage, forest, river, and rainforest, in English, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish." Therefore, under the Public Interest Commitment proposed by the company Amazon Inc., no protection is afforded to a vast number of terms with public policy importance to the Amazon region, including terms that can cause confusion or mislead the public about matters specific to the Amazon region. For example: - words that denote mountains, valleys, rivers, streams, islands, or any other geographical features with significance that may be located in the Amazon, as well as their cognates in different languages; - words that denote animals, plants, medicinal herbs and other botanical products, or any other expressions of the Amazon biodiversity, as well as their cognates in different languages; - words that denote cities, towns, villages or any other human settlements in the Amazon region, as well as their cognates in different languages; - words that denote general economic, political or cultural activities, such as industry, hotel, tourism, ecotourism, travel, trip, government, education, university, study, research, party, and any other words employed to identify some broad spectrum of socio-economic and political practices or sectors, as well as their cognates in different languages; - words that denote popular festivals, folkloric manifestations, beliefs or religiosity of the Amazon populations, including entities, real or mythological beings related to these activities or manifestations, as well as their cognates in different languages. Therefore, the Public Interest Commitment proposed by the company Amazon Inc., besides not being the result of a mutually acceptable solution endorsed by the Amazon countries, as required by the GAC, does not adequately safeguard the Amazon cultural and natural heritage against the risks of monopolization by a single private company of a TLD name space inextricably associated with the Amazon region and the Amazon populations. *** 3. Objection to the proposed PIC: GAC´s advice on "need to find a mutually acceptable solution in the case of the .amazon gTLD applications" The GAC, the organ within ICANN responsibly for public policy, specifically in response to the October 29, 2017 Board request for information "regarding the GAC's advice that the Amazon applications should not proceed", answered the Board, through a March 15, 2018 letter, that there is a "need to find a mutually acceptable solution in the case of the .amazon gTLD applications for the countries affected and for the Amazon corporation", and transmitted to the Board the transcript of the ICANN63 GAC session on the .Amazon applications, where principles contrary to the monopolization of the .AMAZON strings were formulated. The proposed commitment by the applicant company to "sharing the use" of the .AMAZON TLDs, under its Public Interest Commitment, does not ensure the actual sharing of the domain name space with the Amazon communities with which they are inextricably associated. The applicant company says it is willing to make available (i) a maximum of nine (9) domain names for use by Amazon countries, (ii) to be selected from the limited list of names discussed above, (iii) not to admit any subdomain whatsoever, and (iv) to be operated by the applicant company under conditions that are entirely determined by and subject to the discretion of the applicant company. Furthermore, the choice made by the applicant company to present a Public Interest Commitment without securing the support of the Amazon countries is not coherent with its proposed commitment to "share the use" of the .AMAZON TLDs. Without the support of the Amazon countries and without securing their "sharing" of the .AMAZON TLDs, the entire domain name space associated with the Amazon region and the Amazon communities will be operated in ways that indisputably only serve the private interest of a single corporate entity. A decision by the ICANN Board to allow delegation under these circumstances is contrary to the public interest. *** 4. Brazil´s request and proposed course of action We also regret the fact that dialogue towards exploring a mutually acceptable solution was unilaterally broken up, much to the regret of Brazil and others. We were working constructively towards a compromise based on the principle of shared responsibility whem consultations were interrupted, apparently due to the fact that the company was sure its proposed PIC would be accepted by the ICANN board in its entirety. This is a hardly a situation conducive to negotiation and conciliation, and could set a bad precedent relating to the balance between public and private interests in the Internet. In view of the above, and consistently with the positions previously expressed by the GAC and the governments of the Amazon countries, which are recognized by the GAC as the legitimate parties to the necessary mutually acceptable solution for the .AMAZON applications, Brazil respectfully requests that the ICANN Board either refer the proposed Public Interest Commitment back to the applicant company for work with the Amazon countries, or determine not to delegate the corresponding TLDs. In this context, we reiterate our commitment to work towards a consensus solution that will allow the applicant company to pursue its legitimate commercial interests without undue limitations, while safeguarding the public policy concerns and principles outlined above. We recall, in particular, the terms of the Public Interest Commitment proposed by ACTO countries on April 18, 2019 to the applicant company, which, if compared with the applicant company's proposal, could constitute a basis for reaching a win-win solution. We consider, furthermore, that the terms and conditions under which the .AMAZON applications will be resolved may constitute an important precedent, either positive or negative, for the governance of the Internet, as it will demonstrate whether current governance structures are able or not to articulate public concerns and private interests in a constructive manner. ________________________________ [1] National symbols encompass such terms as country and territory names, which should be protected by default, even in the absence of any specific commitment.

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Comments on .food spec 13
by Mr. Michele Neylon Oct. 30, 2015

Oct. 30, 2015

Dear Sir / Madam I am submitting these comments in my personal capacity and not on behalf of any group. ICANN should deny this request. The term “food” is a generic string under ICANN’s definition and no one company should be granted exclusive rights to it. I was one of the people who raised this sort of issue with ICANN back in 2013. See, for example: blog.blacknight.com/letter-to-icann-clarifications-on-non-trademarked-gener… And my opinion on this has not changed. The “food” sector is huge and no one company should have control of the namespace that defines it. Ireland, for example, has a thriving food production industry. See for example: Goodfoodireland.ie There are hundreds of businesses listed on that site and each one of them should have the option to use a .food domain name, which granting .food spec 13 status would deny them Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon

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Australian Government comment on .food [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Williams, Annaliese Oct. 29, 2015

Oct. 29, 2015

UNCLASSIFIED The Australian Government issued an Early Warning to Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc on the grounds that 'food' is a common generic term, and that restricting common generic strings, such as .food, for the exclusive use of a single entity could have a negative impact on competition. The GAC subsequently advised in its Beijing Communique of April 2013 that for strings representing generic terms, exclusive registry access should serve a public interest goal. The Australian Government does not consider that Lifestyle Domain Holdings' application to operate .food for its exclusive use serves a public interest goal. According to Specification 13 section 9.1, .Brand TLDs are TLDs where the TLD is not a Generic String TLD (as defined in Specification 11). Specification 11 section 3.d states that ' "Generic String" means a string consisting of a word or term that denominates or describes a general class of goods, services, groups, organizations or things, as opposed to distinguishing a specific brand of goods, services, groups, organizations or things from those of others.' On this basis, and as 'food' would denominate or describe a general class of food goods or services we consider that .food does not meet the criteria for a .brand TLD. Regards, Annaliese Williams Australian Government GAC representative ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. This message has been content scanned by the Axway MailGate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Comment to .food
by Dirk Krischenowski Oct. 25, 2015

Oct. 25, 2015

I’m commenting on the .Brand TLD Designation Application by Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc., for the .FOOD gTLD, dated September 24, 2015. For over 100,000 domain names including the word “food” and over 3,000,000,000 websites which notion the term “food” no restrictions now exist or are demanded of most existing gTLDs or ccTLDs, giving a restriction on new gTLDs an inhibiting effect on new gTLDs’ ability to fairly compete. An artificial closure of the .food gTLD further inhibits the end‐user purpose of the new gTLD program. I think that .food should be operated in an open and unrestricted manner for the benefit of all users. Especially the food community stakeholders must recognize the net benefit of .food to the worldwide community and encourage expansion of the benefit, instead of allowing the closing of this great opportunity to the commercial benefit of a single merely unknown company. For this reason I have created a Facebook support group which more than 80 persons have signed up already who support my efforts to keep .food an open gTLD (https://www.facebook.com/fooddomainsforeveryone) Furthermore I believe that this request must not be approved and the application has to be deferred to the next gTLD round. 1. ICANN rules do not allow an exclusive use of .FOOD An applicant who wants to operate a TLD under Specification 13 must show that the gTLD matches his trademark and that the string is not a generic word, as clearly defined by ICANN: “… a string consisting of a word or term that denominates or describes a general class of goods, services, groups, organizations or things, as opposed to distinguishing a specific brand of goods, services, groups, organizations or things from those of others.” Specification 13 also explicitly defines that a TLD applying for .BRAND Designation must not be “a Generic String TLD (as defined in Specification 11)”. Both ICANN and the GAC have very clearly articulated that a generic string will not be allowed to be operated as an exclusive .BRAND gTLD. Any applicant for a generic word has to either withdraw his plans for exclusive use of the TLD or withdraw the application. A substantial number of affected and already approved gTLDs amended their application accordingly. Furthermore, an approval of a Specification 13 application would qualify as a violation of the Public Interest Commitments (PIC) in Specification 11, clauses 3.c and 3.d: “c. Registry Operator will operate the TLD in a transparent manner consistent with general principles of openness and non-discrimination by establishing, publishing and adhering to clear registration policies. d. Registry Operator of a “Generic String” TLD may not impose eligibility criteria for registering names in the TLD that limit registrations exclusively to a single person or entity and/or that person’s or entity’s “Affiliates” (as defined in Section 2.9(c) of the Registry Agreement). “Generic String” means a string consisting of a word or term that denominates or describes a general class of goods, services, groups, organizations or things, as opposed to distinguishing a specific brand of goods, services, groups, organizations or things from those of others.” By granting the request that Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. and its Affiliates may become sole registrants in the .FOOD gTLD, ICANN would act in violation of its contract and the agreement with the GAC. 2. A potential change from exclusive to a non-exclusive use Even if the applicant choose to file a change request for a non-exclusive use of .FOOD, this would constitute a clear-cut material change. For any material change to an application, such as amending an application from exclusive use to non-exclusive use, ICANN reserves the right to re-evaluate the application, according to the Applicant Guidebook, version 2012-06-04, section 1.2.7. The practical implications of a change of status of .FOOD from exclusive to non-exclusive would be significant in financial terms, since responses to questions 46 to 50 would be completely misleading, as the costs of operations of an exclusive TLD would be substantially less than the costs of operation of an non-exclusive TLD and thus all responses to the financial questions would be flawed and the Continuing Operations Instrument grossly inaccurate which clearly justifies a request for a re-evaluation by ICANN. Regards, Dirk Krischenowski Gustav-Mueller-Strasse 1, 10829 Berlin, Germany www.krischenowski.berlin 25 October 2016

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'the wild west of typosquatters and cybersquatters'
by Marcus Fauré Oct. 20, 2015

Oct. 20, 2015

Scripps argues that if .food were to use a registry-registrar model, it would ultimately ruin the TLD. While there is fraud in many TLDs, it's difficult to accept that .com and others harmed users more than it helped them. Moreover, there are ways to keep a namespace clean. One is to restrict access to qualified registrants like fTLD has done for .bank. Another is to have a charter that regulates the use of the names, e.g. the linguistic and cultural TLD .cat requires registrants to have a website in Catalan Marcus Fauré Global Village ICANN accredited registrar

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Comment on Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc., Specification 13 Application
by Johannes Lenz-Hawliczek | Hotel Top-Level-Domain Sarl Oct. 16, 2015

Oct. 16, 2015

We are commenting on the .Brand TLD Designation Application by Lifestyle Domain Holdings, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc., for the .FOOD gTLD, dated September 24, 2015. We believe that this request must not be approved and the application has to be deferred to the next gTLD round. 1. ICANN rules do not allow an exclusive use of .FOOD An applicant who wants to operate a TLD under Specification 13 must show that the gTLD matches his trademark and that the string is not a generic word, as clearly defined by ICANN: “… a string consisting of a word or term that denominates or describes a general class of goods, services, groups, organizations or things, as opposed to distinguishing a specific brand of goods, services, groups, organizations or things from those of others.” Specification 13 also explicitly defines that a TLD applying for .BRAND Designation must not be “a Generic String TLD (as defined in Specification 11)”. Both ICANN and the GAC have very clearly articulated that a generic string will not be allowed to be operated as an exclusive .BRAND gTLD. Any applicant for a generic word has to either withdraw his plans for exclusive use of the TLD or withdraw the application. A substantial number of affected and already approved gTLDs amended their application accordingly. Furthermore, an approval of a Specification 13 application would qualify as a violation of the Public Interest Commitments (PIC) in Specification 11, clauses 3.c and 3.d: “c. Registry Operator will operate the TLD in a transparent manner consistent with general principles of openness and non-discrimination by establishing, publishing and adhering to clear registration policies. d. Registry Operator of a “Generic String” TLD may not impose eligibility criteria for registering names in the TLD that limit registrations exclusively to a single person or entity and/or that person’s or entity’s “Affiliates” (as defined in Section 2.9(c) of the Registry Agreement). “Generic String” means a string consisting of a word or term that denominates or describes a general class of goods, services, groups, organizations or things, as opposed to distinguishing a specific brand of goods, services, groups, organizations or things from those of others.” By granting the request that Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. and its Affiliates may become sole registrants in the .FOOD gTLD, ICANN would act in violation of its contract and the agreement with the GAC. 2. A potential change from exclusive to a non-exclusive use Even if the applicant choose to file a change request for a non-exclusive use of .FOOD, this would constitute a clear-cut material change. For any material change to an application, such as amending an application from exclusive use to non-exclusive use, ICANN reserves the right to re-evaluate the application, according to the Applicant Guidebook, version 2012-06-04, section 1.2.7. The practical implications of a change of status of .FOOD from exclusive to non-exclusive would be significant in financial terms, since responses to questions 46 to 50 would be completely misleading, as the costs of operations of a exclusive TLD would be substantially less than the costs of operation of an non-exclusive TLD and thus all responses to the financial questions would be flawed and the Continuing Operations Instrument grossly inaccurate which clearly justifies a request for a re-evaluation by ICANN. Regards, Katrin Ohlmer, Johannes Lenz-Hawliczek Managing Directors, Hotel Top-Level-Domain Sárl Luxembourg, 16. October 2015

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Opposed to .food
by Christopher Wilkinson Oct. 10, 2015

Oct. 10, 2015

The privatisation of generic words in English or any other language must be forbidden. I have absolutely NO trust in any one company operating .food in a responsible manner. .food must be an open generic with the usual precautions but NO monopoly. Otherwise it must not be delegated. CW

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.food generic
by David Johnson Oct. 9, 2015

Oct. 9, 2015

I think .food should be allowed to be a dot brand. We all know the food network. They are famous and have a lot of power. Why not allow them trademark rights on this generic word. This will set a good precedence that ICANN allows generic words to be brands and allow other generic words in the future to be captured. Just because the word is in the dictionary doesn't mean that everyone should have access to register in it. Let people register in dot eat or some other TLD if they want a food domain. Brands should have more power in ICANN. Same goes for .apple, just because apple farmers want access to that TLD doesn't mean they should be allowed. Brands are more important then everyone on earth. This is why Ford motor company got the rights to an entire A block of IP addresses (19.0.0.0) in the early days. Once it is done, it can never be undone. So slip in this decision quickly before people can complain. Please give brands more power!

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