[NA-Discuss] Proposal for North American Indigenous TLD

[John Levine]

> I'm interested. What can we (I) do to help?

If ICANN ever deals with the constipation in the TLD process, this would 
be a perfectly reasonable candidate to be one of the next thousand 
domains.  In the current environment where you need to spend $100K to 
apply, lobby, schmooze, make legal threats, etc., I just don't see where 
the money's coming from.

I'd rather work on the underlying problem that there's no new TLD process 
than try to pick ones to push through the existing non-process.

R's,
John

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> [mailto:na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Danny
> Younger
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:27 PM
> To: NA Discuss
> Subject: [NA-Discuss] Proposal for North American Indigenous TLD
>
> A proposal has been fielded for a new gTLD for the North American
> Indigenous community (.nai) -- details at
> http://wampum.wabanaki.net/vault/2008/04/004460.html
>
> This appears to be an effort spearheaded by Eric Brunner-Williams who
> earlier in DNSO Working Group C proposed the TLD .naa (a gTLD scoped to
> North America and the territories, trusts and treaty dependencies of the
> United States and Canada, and delegated to the designates of the
> National Congress of American Indians/Assembly of First Nations) -- see
> http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/19991023.NCwgc-report.html
>
> It looks like Eric is currently affiliated with CORE, (and he has had
> prior experience with the gTLD submission process via the SWITCH .org
> proposal).
>
> Some in the NARALO may wish to assist in this effort.
> The primary obstacle, of course, will be the cost of the the ticket to
> the ICANN Ball.
>
>
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Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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