[At-Large] [ga] VeriSign Registry Service Proposal

[Bashar Al-Abdulhadi]

Chuck,

Can you please explain what does two-character 2nd-level domains on .com 
and .net ? i thought all two letters/characters were available for 
registration and already been allocated to their respective owners?


Best Regards,

Bashar Al-Abdulhadi

CEO, KuwaitNET.net



Gomes, Chuck wrote, On 6/26/2008 10:54 AM:

> It is for single and two-character 2nd-level domain names for .com and
> .net.
>
> Chuck 
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeffrey A. Williams [mailto:jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:04 PM
>> To: ga at gnso.icann.org; Gomes, Chuck; 
>> na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org
>> Cc: alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org; aheineman at ntia.doc.gov; 
>> ssene at ntia.doc.gov
>> Subject: Re: [ga] VeriSign Registry Service Proposal
>>
>> Danny, Chuck and all,
>>
>>   Thank you Danny for making us all aware of this.  
>>
>>   Chuck, thank you for making us as aware as you possibly 
>> could regarding this proposal.  Is this a TLD or a Domain 
>> Name?  I believe you meant TLD.  In any event, our INEGroup 
>> members will be very interested I am sure to review this 
>> proposal very closely and shall relay their remarks to me 
>> which I shall share as broadly as possible to ICANN staff, 
>> Bod and other constituency groups within the GNSO.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>     
>>> From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger at yahoo.com>
>>> Sent: Jun 25, 2008 6:33 PM
>>> To: ga at gnso.icann.org
>>> Subject: [ga] VeriSign Registry Service Proposal
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>>> CHUCK GOMES:  In the interest of transparency and 
>>>>>           
>> disclosing my interests, I would like to inform you that 
>> VeriSign has submitted a registry service proposal for the 
>> allocation of single and two-character domain names.  There 
>> aren't very many two-character domain names available, by the 
>> way, one.
>>     
>>> So, unfortunately, until it's posted it is not appropriate 
>>>       
>> for me to discuss the details.  I can tell you that I believe 
>> that we incorporated a lot of the issues that were 
>> recommended in the comments with regard to ICANN's paper and 
>> that we think it has excellent benefit for the community.
>>     
>>> And in fairness to ICANN staff so that we submitted it late 
>>>       
>> leading up to these meeting and at a very difficult time for 
>> them to respond -- although we have had some interaction, so 
>> I don't want this to come across as a criticism to ICANN 
>> staff that it hasn't been posted.
>>     
>>> If per chance -- and I don't know whether this will happen 
>>>       
>> or not -- it is posted this week, we will be happy to talk 
>> about it and receive comments from people.
>>     
>>> https://par.icann.org/files/paris/Paris-GNSO-22JUN08am.txt
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>       
>> Regards,
>>
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