[At-Large] At-Large Use of Country and Territory Names as Top Level Domains

[Evan Leibovitch]

To me the answer is self-evident.

The codes that ICANN uses for ccTLDs, especially ones that are
non-intuitive to foreigners (such as .ch for Switzerland, .za for South
Africa or .kh for Cambodia) are based on an ISO standard, ISO 3166-1
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1>, with one notable exception (use
of ,uk when the ISO code for the United Kingdom is GB).

This same standard also defines three-lettter codes. Because of the
definition of a publicly-understood standard, anything besides allocating
these ISO codes to the appropriate ccTLDs would cause substantial public
confusion.

- Evan




On 22 September 2015 at 09:09, Maureen Hilyard <maureen.hilyard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear At-Large members
>
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> Country codes are traditionally a 2-letter string. The new gTLD process is
> enabling country and territory codes to be expanded to 3-letters (or even
> as whole names).
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> The “Cross Community Working Group for the Use of Country and Territory
> Names as Top Level Domains” is asking:
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> 1. Should these new 3-letter country/territory codes be reserved ONLY as
> ccTLDs *OR* should they be open to everyone as gTLDs?  (This question
> refers to 3-letter code IDN ccTLDs and IDN gTLDs as well)
>
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> 2. What advantages or disadvantages does your answer offer either group
> (ccTLDs or gTLDs)?
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> Please return your answers to these two questions to me asap. J
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> For those who would like to contribute to other questions about this topic
> please refer directly to the workspace
>
>
> https://community.icann.org/display/alacpolicydev/At-Large+Use+of+Country+and+Territory+Names+as+Top-Level+Domains+Workspace
>
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> All comments welcome J
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