[NCSG-Discuss] Closed Generics are Against the Rules

[Alex Gakuru]

Unfortunately, let's be alive to the fact of life that the Internet made
English the *de facto* world language hence we all its preservation
stakeholders. While appreciating disparate efforts to preserve endangered
languages, such as UNESCO and Big G's

--cite--
According to the Endangered Languages Project, only 50 percent of languages
spoken today will still be around by 2100 and "The disappearance of a
language means the loss of valuable scientific and cultural information,
comparable to the loss of a species." CNET article Google confronts
extinction of more than 3,000 languages
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57458519-93/google-confronts-extinction-of-more-than-3000-languages/>
--cite--

Respectfully,

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

> hi,
>
> In which case, if I really wanted honey for some reason I would apply for
> .miele or .דבש or .asali
>
> or register  honey.shop or honey.coop  or honey.ri.us or honey.eat or
> honey.farm or honey.food or .....
>
> I do  not see the point of arguing about what content someone allows in
> their gTLD.  And to me this largely comes down to a content issue.  We are
> saying that everyone has a right to put content under the TLD .honey.  And
> I just don't see it.
>
> I also see it as an association issue.  Why does ICANN have authority to
> tell a gTLD owner who they must associate with, i.e who they must allow to
> use the gTLD they have been allocated.
>
> As I said, I think the gulf between the two positions is quite wide.
>
> avri
>
>
> On 24 Feb 2013, at 18:12, Alex Gakuru wrote:
>
> > But Avri,
> >
> > Let's take honey, for example. Someone registers the word to the
> exclusion of everyone else in the domain name space. Surely honey is
> harvested at many places around the world, therefore *all* somewhere.honey
> equally deserve registration with whomever rushed to grab the word. Else
> would mean advocating for English to be now considered as a proprietary
> language.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Alex
>
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