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

[Carlton Samuels]

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On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>>
>> The “Cross Community Working Group for the Use of Country and Territory
>> Names as Top Level Domains” is asking:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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)
>>
>>
>>
>> 2. What advantages or disadvantages does your answer offer either group
>> (ccTLDs or gTLDs)?
>>
>>
>>
>> Please return your answers to these two questions to me asap. J
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> All comments welcome J
>>
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