About Alternative Naming Scheme (was before Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] Re: Why is "Marketing ccTLDs as generics" on NC Agenda?)

[Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales]

Hi to all:

Please, find below the message I sent to the NC list almost two months
ago about
Alternative Name Scheme (wow! finally I found under which title should
be
this message really!!)

Also can be found in:
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc05/msg00783.html

Please keep reading...


Re: [council] Alternative naming scheme announced....

            To: council at dnso.org
            Subject: Re: [council] Alternative naming scheme
announced....
            From: Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales <vany at sdnp.org.pa>
            Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:02:19 -0400
            Organization: SDNP/Panama
            References: <3B7AE393.506DC8D6 at REACTO.com>
            Reply-To: vany at sdnp.org.pa
            Sender: owner-council at dnso.org



       Hi Paul:

       Thanks for bring this issue into our attention.

       By coincidence, another company has made the same, but with TLDs
in
       Spanish that are not existing TLDs
       The name is  new.net  http://www.new.net.    This has been having

       publicity in the newspapers.

       For those using Linux, they just have to add in a file resolv.con
the IP
       addresses of their DNS servers.  I suppouse this instruction is
for the
       ISPs, so they can resolve the Domain Names for their customers.
And
       for those customers that their ISPs doesn't have updated their
       resolv.conf file, then also they can download an application that
will
       make the job to give them access to websites with such TLDs.

       I have some concerns:

       1.   If in the future such TLDs are asigned to a Registry...Who
       guarantee to the Registrant that their registration will remain
valid,
       in the event that the Registrar with the database of domain names

       registered under such a TLD have a delay in sending such
information to
       the Registry and other Registrar sends another database to the
Registry
       with some identical domain names but
       with different Registrant?

       2.  What would happen if different Registrars wants to offer the
same
       TLD? (remember such TLD doesn't exist as such).  What about
competivity
       if it is suppoused that different Registrars should be able to
offer the
       same TLDs as others?

       3.  What if the ISPs doesn't want to resolve such addresses?

       4.  Is this iniciative have any effect in the stability of the
DNS?

       5.  New.net in their guiding principles
       http://www.new.net/about_us_guiding.tp  talks about working very
close
       with ICANN.  I want to know if they have made such approach
already to
       ICANN Board and what was the response.

       I think that we have to look very close to this issue since there
will
       be several affected sectors:
       1.  The Registrant:  it is the main one since they are paying for
such
       domain names.  The ones that offers TLDs that doesn't exists are
playing
       with the customer since it is uncertainty the future of the
registered
       domain names.
       2.  The ISP bussiness:  if an ISP doesn't want to update their
networks
       or even refer to their clients the software for them to resolve
such
       domains...some of the consequences can be that they can loose
their
       clients because other ISPs maybe they are willing to do it.
       The question here is:  a reponsible ISP would offer such a
feature?
       3.  Intellectual Property:  Application of the UDRP.  How is that
such
       domain names can be  subject to any Intellectual Property issue
if,
       concerning to ICANN, such TLDs doesn't exists?
       4.  Non-Commercial sector: how can the NCDNHC watch their issues
if
       organizations doesn't have a domain name registered under the
existing
       TLDs?
       5.  Bussiness sector:  how can the BC watch their issues if
organizatios
       doesn't have a domain name registered under the existing TLDs?
       6.  Registrars:  How can it be fair competition amongst the
Registrars
       if not all has the same oportunity to offer domain names under
such
       TLDs?
       7.  Registry:   Is it fair that actual registries has payed
$50000.00
       and made a $$$$ investment and made all the legal procedure to be

       acredited by ICANN and now there are other bussinesses that are
doing
       the same without follow the proper process?

       Best Regards
       Vany

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Best Regards
Vany