[kictanet] Scramble for New Domain Names Begins

[Dandjinou Pierre]

Dear Alice,

To expand McTim's questions, are there any  african position on the same
issues?

On the .XXX, for instance, I recall the Nigerian representative on the GAC
had elaborated on an 'African position' at the last ICANN meeting.

Pierre.Dandjinou



On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:57 AM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Alice,
>
> As one of GoK reps on the GAC of ICANN, can you tell us what the GoK
> position on new gTLds will be?
>
> On .xxx/.gay/.whatever is is that some people find offensive?
>
> Will you be supporting the US position that governments get a veto?
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Alice Munyua <alice at apc.org> wrote:
> > http://slatest.slate.com/id/2284157/
> >
> > Scramble for New Domain Names Begins
> >
> > For years, most internet addresses have relied on a standard set of Web
> > addresses ending in .com, .net, and .edu. Now, an impending mass
> expansion
> > of domain names is set to add subject-specific (and potentially
> > controversial) suffixes into the mix. The Washington Post reports that
> .god,
> > .gay, and .islam are just some of the infinite number of names to be
> > introduced in a move that may make the Internet more intuitive, or just
> more
> > irritating. Naturally this will throw up the usual set of controversies:
> > Who, for example, gets to control .abortion, .muhammad, and .nazi? The
> new
> > suffixes will be dolled out by an obscure nonprofit based in California
> that
> > OKed the expansion in 2008 but still hasn't figured out exactly how it
> will
> > work. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will come
> to a
> > decision this spring and then begin considering proposals from companies
> and
> > government. ICANN has encouraged applicants to "Join the Internet land
> > rush!" on its Web site, although the new suffixes will come at a price.
> It
> > costs $185,000 just to apply, plus an annual $25,000 fee to operate the
> new
> > domain name. Critics say the "landrush" is simply a moneymaking scheme
> for
> > the group and corporations that own the domains. The chairman of ICANN
> says
> > the high fees are necessary because the nonprofit anticipates a lot of
> > suffix-related lawsuits.
> >
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> >
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