[At-Large] New gTLDs

[Bret Fausett]

The registries are telling everyone that DNAME is the greatest  
innovation in the world, but giving Verisign every multilingual  
iteration of .COM and .NET is something I think we should push hard  
against. Yes, it means that if I want "BRET" in the Chinese version  
of NET, I'll need to register again, but I view the Chinese version  
of NET, whatever it might be, as a separate TLD.

On Jul 2, 2007, at 7:25 AM, John L wrote:

>> If there is some interest in allowing aliases, I will submit a  
>> statement to
>> that effect.
>
> I gather that there is great pressure in some quarters to grandfather
> aliases for gTLDs so that Verisign would get every name that means
> "business" or "network" in any language, Tralliance would get every  
> name
> that means "travel", and so forth.  Since silence means consent at  
> ICANN
> (and as often as not, loud screaming opposition means consent  
> anyway), it
> would be a good idea to say explicitly whether we think that's a  
> good idea
> and why not.
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet  
> for Dummies",
> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex- 
> Mayor
> "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
>
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