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[ NNSquad ] ICANN New gTLD Committee Not Sure How To Handle Closed Generic Applications
ICANN New gTLD Committee Not Sure How To Handle Closed Generic Applications http://j.mp/YAUNga (The Domains) "It seems pretty clear that the New gTLD committee of ICANN doesn't know what they should do about what is fast becoming one of the biggest issues of the new gTLD program, applications for closed generic strings. The issue generic strings like .App and .Music which were applied for by companies like Amazon, which would not allow any third party registrations, but rather keep the entire generic string for their own use. The minutes of The Meeting of the New gTLD Program Committee of the ICANN Board of Directors which was held on 10 January 2013 were just published yesterday. On the issue of Closed Generic Strings, the minutes reflect that the committee and ICANN is split on what exactly to do with what has become a big problem for the new gTLD program. Of course the ICANN Board could have avoided the entire problem had it included in the Guidebook a prohibition against any company operating a closed "generic" string (as opposed to a .Brand String) but ICANN did not prohibit this type of application and now that the applications are in and the money has been paid by the applicants its going to be one of the larger issues facing ICANN." - - - - The real issue is why ICANN plowed ahead when a crucial issue like this was obvious. Oh wait, I remember now: $$$. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad