A democrat and republican (from u.s. congress), are attempting to freeze
these decisions thru the U.S. dept. of commerce that gives Icann it's
power, because they have serious concern about how Icann handled this.
Guesstimated opening of new tld's. Somewhere between Jan. and Jun 2001.
Remember, i think only .info .biz and .name are open to the public. Rest
are restricted to there respective industries.
And, from what i am gleaning, Trademark owners have first kick at the new
domains during the (toxic) Sunrise period. Hmm,... since practically every
word in the English language is trademarked, including sex, it may be
revolting to watch how Icann and the new TLD operators handle this. If you
find my tone laden with contempt, well it is. Imo, Icann has handled this
in a shameful and disgraceful behind closed doors and undemocratic manner.
It is the unknown variables about how the sunrise process will be handled
that irks me greatly. To not reveal a clear strategy to the general public
about this, shows me that we may be witnessing the same old stale story.
Artificial scarcity in the namespace remains.
And might i add that just a week or so ago, the Unelected board of directors
changed the Icann policies so the newly Elected minority wouldn't have the
right to vote on these tlds. This was done without any explaination from
Icann.
It's who you know,
and it's how much money you have.
How pathetic.
Swerve
> From: "Ross Wm. Rader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 04:01:50 -0800
> To: "Discuss-List@Opensrs. Org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: FW: [wg-c] new TLDs
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> Here's the final official tally from Jon Weinberg, the past chair of
> wg-c - the original working group set up by ICANN to advise the Names
> Council on the creation of new top level domains.
>
> I must say that I am very personally pleased at the fact that ICANN
> has finally closed off almost five years of work on this subject in a
> very appropriate manner.
>
> < -----Original Message-----
> < From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> < Jonathan Weinberg
> < Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 2:34 PM
> < To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> < Subject: [wg-c] new TLDs
> <
> <
> < The ICANN Board just approved seven new TLDs: BIZ (JVTeam), INFO
> < (Afilias), NAME (Global Name Registry), PRO (RegistryPro), MUSEUM
> (MDMA),
> < AERO (SITA), and COOP (NCDA). Kudos to all who helped to bring
> this
> < about.
> <
> < Jon
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> < Jonathan Weinberg
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