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[ NNSquad ] Kosher war over proposed .kosher gTLD
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. --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