[ncdnhc-discuss] Re: Why is "Marketing ccTLDs as generics" on NC Agenda?

[Jonathan Weinberg]

Vany --

         I'm not sure I understand this.  I gather that you've asked for 
ten minutes during the NC teleconference to talk about alternate roots 
(specifically, new.net).  What, exactly, is it that you want to say about them?

Jon


At 06:41 AM 10/4/2001 -0700, Vany Martinez wrote:
>Hi William:
>The title of the agenda was a misunderstanding of
>Philip about the subject I want to talk about.
>The changes will be posted soon.
>The title of such agenda item will be:
>"TLDs not created by ICANN: an attempt to expand the
>domain name space or creates confusion."
>As you may know, there are some companies that are
>marketing TLDs as .TRAVEL, . GAMES, .KIDS, etc, and
>what they really do is to masquerade an actual domain
>in order to resolve domains under such TLDs.  This
>means that only the users that has the proper software
>or the users under an ISP that has setted up their
>networks to resolve such domain names, will be able to
>resolve such names.
>This affects all sectors in some way of another...What
>the NCDNHC will do if an organization applies to be a
>member of the NCDNCH and when we ask them what is your
>domain, they answer something like:
>myorganization.NGO ?
>How can we protect the rights of the non-commercial
>sector that is ignorant of what's going on.
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