[At-Large] New gTLDs

[Hong Xue]

> 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.



In GNSO IDN WG, I and a couple of others did speak loud against any attempt
to create a "DNAME" model when ".info", "museum" and "asia" registries
raised their "concerns" over confusing similarity. You can see from the WG
Final Report that the DNAME argument was not accepted and confusing
similarity does not cover "semantic similarity" as these registries wished.
However, since IDN WG is now being melted into a new gTLD hot pot, that
flavor is diluted and we return to the starting point--asking
what confusingly similar is again.



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.



I guess the Chinese version could be "布瑞特。网络" (Bret.net).

Hong

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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