ICANN participation

There are many in the community that have issues with
some of the new gTLD recommendations put forward by
ICANN's GNSO Council.

An ad-hoc WG is being formed to aggregate these
concerns for presentation to the ICANN Board at the
upcoming session in Los Angeles.

Anyone may subscribe to this WG at
http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-liaison_atlarge-lis...

I am proposing for a:

.gay and .les for a new gTLD. I think it's unfair not having these.

Hello

This is the second time that I bring the subject up.

I found this news release by SEDO today.
Please keep reading after the newspaper cut.
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17/01/02 |
.Name Goes Live! Personlize Your Web With a Dot-Name

The World Wide Web just got a little more personal. After the release of the new commerce-oriented TLDs .biz and .info, the domain extension .name went live on Tuesday offering users a personalized space on the Net for a mere registration fee of $30/year.

We live on the same Planet- Earth,so
I could recommend new Domain Name in Top Level Domains, like .world or .earth :)

In few words, I would like to outline and stress that downfall of success of gTLD is tied to its "ability" to be clearly generic. I mean that .aero or .museum are so specific that these can only target a small market and so not enough profitable or sustnaible.
this issue can also occur for probable geoTLD because geoTLD can only target a particular geographical area.

There was a workshop at the San Juan meeting which was concerned that the new gTLD policy agreed over several years through the ICANN process risked restricting freedom of expression.

Yes, why nota .service . Why not creating a gTLD for each kind of human or economic activities (especially economic).it is just a proposal.
a domain is not just a "promotional" domain or new fashion trends but maybe an information by itself. We are going for a semantic web where the important isn't the information but the knwoledge. so such meta information contained in domain name can be really useful. but we have to beware that such new addition needs a new definition of the management of gTLD.

It seems that Latin American Community movement for an own TLD get some momentum. Comparable to .eu and .asia it it suggested to create a similar string for the community. Proposal are welcome

Original message in Spanish language

Translation

Under the title "Broadening the Domain Name Space: Top Level Domains for Cities and Regions?" an IGF workshop on TLD for cities and regions is planned. Participants will be also represenatives of the leading city development organisations, Telecities and UNITAR. Speakers include some of the GeoTLD initiatives like .berlin (be .berlin), .paris, .nyc.

Link to cityTLD workshop

Some weeks ago Michael Leibrandt, the German GAC representative until end of 2006, has issued on the CPSR mailing list an article about his personal view on the new gTLDs, especially the GeoTLDs.

Werner Staub, Tom Lowenhaupt and me (Dirk Krischenowski) made comments to Michaels article here:

Michael Leibrandt on GeoTLDs - Article and Comments