[ga] Re: ICANN received 44 applications for new TLDs

[Measday Mark <measday@josmarian.ch>]

Chance observations from a series of disinterested observers on ICANN's 44
applications.

1. Frightening the paucity of diversity, multilingualism or imagination.

2. Seems like gtld-mou replicants only make the list?

3. None of these people even played junior scrabble.

4. IATA's .air and WHO's .health have taken four years to appear from conception,
an elephantine birth one hopes will be rewarded with real tuskers. ICANN's attempt
to garner internationalism has an even longer way to go down the birth canal.

5. I feel sorry for Esther Dyson whose efforts to build some international
consensus on the back of Dixon's IFWP ran into stony isolationism.

6. Still time for the substantial backers of ICANN to chart a path that not only
includes the IP of the US but the rest of the world, too. if they're interested in
more than the occasional senior pro-am.

7. Abril's nominalism (that the name of a thing constitutes the thing, most
infamously met in Anselm's proof of God) disproven.



MM

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James Love wrote:

> http://www.icann.org/tlds/tld-applications-lodged-02oct00.htm
>
> And, many applications involve more than one string.  Paul Garin's
> Name.Space asks for the most strings.  There are several non-commercial
> TLD applications, and several applications that compete for the same
> strings.  Popular TLD strings are .biz (5), .kids (4), .tel (4), .inc
> (3), and .nom (2).  There are only 2 applications for .web, one of which
> asked for three strings.
>
> There is one .union application, and one .museum application.  The
> co-op and .coop proposal is by the Cooperative League of the USA.
> Novell is seeking .dir.  Nokia is seeking eight TLD strings, including
> mobile. The Association Monegasque des Banques is seeking .fin.  The
> Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques is seeking
> air.  The International Air transport Association wants .travel.   Core
> is seeking .nom, but has competition from a 7 member group that includes
> Lycos, .tv, Korean firms 7DC and SK Telecom, onlincenic from China and
> the dotNOM consortium.
>
> Jamie
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