[NCUC-DISCUSS] Fwd: [ NNSquad ] Kosher war over proposed .kosher gTLD

[Joly MacFie]

Is it a controversy? Isn't it just the objection process working as planned?


On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Nuno Garcia <ngarcia at ngarcia.net> wrote:

> I didn't notice this controversy here...
>
>
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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren at vortex.com>
> Date: 19 July 2013 01:38
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Kosher war over proposed .kosher gTLD
> To: nnsquad at nnsquad.org
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> Kosher war over proposed .kosher gTLD
>
> http://j.mp/12YGAdX  (ars technica)
>
>    "A group calling itself Kosher Marketing Assets LLC had been the sole
>     applicant for the TLD, and in its application it aims to "promote
>     awareness of the TLD through press releases and direct communications
>     with customers of OK Kosher Certification."  But now, according to a
>     new report by Bloomberg, five rival kosher certifying organizations
>     and companies have banded together to halt Kosher Market Assets LLC
>     and its parent company OK Kosher ... Meanwhile, .halal and .amazon are
>     among the slew of other domain names that are also under dispute."
>
>  - - -
>
> "Oy vey!" -- Of course this isn't funny at all, and demonstrates just
> one of the pervasive flaws in ICANN's ever-morphing gTLD expansion
> plans.
>
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