[NCSG-Discuss] Closed Generics are Against the Rules

[Nicolas Adam]

On 2/24/2013 12:44 PM, Avri Doria wrote:
> hi,
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> In which case, if I really wanted honey for some reason I would apply for .miele or .דבש or .asali
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> or register  honey.shop or honey.coop  or honey.ri.us or honey.eat or honey.farm or honey.food or .....

Yes, yes, and yes. Otherwise, it's just one big free public trust of 
strings, whose use needs to be planned and centralized, entailing 
endless (and random) specific adjudication.

As for generic word capture: language(s) is (are) big. Many ways to talk 
about miel.

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> As I said, I think the gulf between the two positions is quite wide.
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> avri
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> On 24 Feb 2013, at 18:12, Alex Gakuru wrote:
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>> But Avri,
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>> 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.
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>> Regards,
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>> Alex