new gTLD

[Andrew A. Adams]

> On 9 Apr 2012, at 16:37, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote:
> 
> > FYI
> > 
> > http://www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/chapman-to-beckstrom-30mar12-en
> > 
> > wolfgang

Avri Doria replied:

> I wonder if those applying for such names can expect GAC Early Warnings.
> 

I just wonder if these people have realised that despite ICANN being a US 
organisation and despite the US' recent appalling extension of criminal 
jurisdiction over any  domain registered with Verisign or another US-based 
registrar (see the Richard O'Dwyer case), that the Internet is a worldwide 
technology and that terminologies have different meanings in different places.

When .net stopped being a routing-only domain, the idea that a gTLD actually 
means anything beyond what its registar says it does (.edu means something as 
does .ac.uk but only because the TLD owner has a policy and enforces it) has 
already long left the building.


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Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
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