Kathy,<div><br></div><div>I am sympathetic to your position. My concern is that any change now to the program will embroil ICANN in mass litigation that will paralyze the organization for a considerable period going forward. We briefly spoke in Los Angeles about some recent legal hires by Amazon: some pretty impressive hires. Can you convince me that my concerns are invalid? Might not a better approach at this point be to pressure the applicants themselves to open up the generic domains, to make it socially unacceptable for large companies to operate closed Tlds?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ed</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Kathy Kleiman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kathy@kathykleiman.com" target="_blank">kathy@kathykleiman.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Quote from Jeff Neuman (VP Neustar) in
Amsterdam last week:<br>
<i><b>Nearly all of those applying for Closed gTLDs would fail to
qualify based on his reading of the Code of Conduct. </b></i><i><b><br>
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Article show concern around the world for TLDs which are generic
strings/words of an entire industry or business (DOCS, BOOK,
SEARCH, ANTIVIRUS, WATCHES) being dominated and controlled by a
single industry/business (and only one of many competitors).
that's being a registry to monoplize a word, not to offer registry
services.<br>
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- The Hindu: Beauty lies in the ‘domain’ of the highest bidder
(Op-ed piece by Parminder Jeet Singh, Executive Director, IT for
Change, in special consultative status with the United Nations
Economic and Social Council (IGF attendee)), 12/24/2012,
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/beauty-lies-in-the-domain-of-the-highest-bidder/article3929612.ece" target="_blank">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/beauty-lies-in-the-domain-of-the-highest-bidder/article3929612.ece</a>
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- Forbes: The Battle For The Cloud: Amazon Proposes 'Closed'
Top-Level .CLOUD Domain, 11/6/2012,
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2012/11/06/the-battle-for-the-cloud-amazon-proposes-closed-top-level-cloud-domain/?partner=yahootix" target="_blank">http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2012/11/06/the-battle-for-the-cloud-amazon-proposes-closed-top-level-cloud-domain/?partner=yahootix</a>
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- Techworld: Problems arise where one entity is seeking
exclusive use of strings with broad applicability, 11/21/2012,
<a href="http://news.techworld.com/networking/3412616/icann-issues-early-warnings-over-controversial-top-level-domains/" target="_blank">http://news.techworld.com/networking/3412616/icann-issues-early-warnings-over-controversial-top-level-domains/</a><br>
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I am deeply, deeply concerned! <br>
Best,<br>
Kathy<br>
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<pre>A quote from Karen Lentz (ICANN legal staff): "Under the current rules, there's nothing that would prevent the use of closed generics, which is focused on the issue of who can register a name."
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