[Fwd: [council] ICANN extending comment period on single-letter and single-digit domain names until 15 December 2007]

[Robin Gross]

FYI:

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Subject: 	[council] ICANN extending comment period on single-letter and
single-digit domain names until 15 December 2007
Date: 	Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:10:08 +0100
From: 	GNSO.SECRETARIAT at GNSO.ICANN.ORG <gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org>
To: 	'Council GNSO' <council at gnso.icann.org>



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http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-16oct07.htm


ICANN Establishes Forum on Allocation Methods for Single-Letter and
Single-Digit Domain Names

16 October 2007 (Comment period extended 7 November 2007).

As recommended by the GNSO Council, ICANN is commencing a forum on
potential allocation methods for single-letter and single-digit domain
names at the second level in gTLD registries. Examples include a.com,
i.info, 4.mobi, 8.org. Since revenue will result from this allocation,
comments regarding the potential uses for this revenue are also requested.

ICANN intends to synthesize responses to the forum and present proposed
methods for allocation of single-letter and single-digit domain names at
the second level for community consideration.

To be considered by ICANN, ideas on potential allocation methods should
be submitted to allocationmethods at icann.org. Comments may be viewed at
http://forum.icann.org/lists/allocationmethods/. **ICANN is extending
the comment period until 23:59 UTC 15 December 2007 on the forum for
potential allocation methods for single-letter and single-digit domain
names at the second level in gTLD registries. There has been interest in
providing additional time so that members of the Internet community that
have not previously commented on ICANN topics may do so. 17 comments
have been provided to date.

The GNSO Council asked ICANN to initiate a forum on this issue after
considering a report of the Council's Reserved Names Working Group
(RN-WG), which recommended that “single letters and digits be released
at the second level in future gTLDs, and that those currently reserved
in existing gTLDs should be released. This release should be contingent
upon the use of appropriate allocation frameworks. More work may be
needed. In future gTLDs we recommend that single letters and single
digits be available at the second (and third level if applicable).” The
GNSO is one of ICANN's primary stakeholder-populated policy making
bodies. The recommendations of the RN-WG can be found at
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/new-gtlds/final-report-rn-wg-23may07.pdf
[PDF, 713K].
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Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
http://gnso.icann.org