Re: [ga] ".tel" proposed gTLD, and the like

[Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Harald,

using simular logic how do you feel about .GEO or .DIR?

.GEO would never have registrations beloning to another entity, and you
couldn't transfer registrations. Users would *never* type in a .GEO SLD.

.DIR A parallel to .COM?

-rick



On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Harald Alvestrand wrote:

> At 22:27 04/11/2000 +0100, Jefsey Morfin wrote:
> >I wander about the proposed gTLD ".tel" (there might be others,
> >now or in the future in the same case). IMHO such propositions
> >concerning a telecom or an internet service should be prevented
> >from being allocated a TLD (and the DNSO should warn the BoD
> >against such an error)
> 
> There are 3 different applications for .tel - pulver, number.tel and telnic.
> 
> pulver basically replicates e164.arpa under the root, but wants to keep 
> ownership of all numbers "to promote competition for number-related services".
> It already has an operational structure under e164.com, btw.
> 
> number.tel wants a flat namespace under .tel, and should be rejected for 
> operational preposterousness.
> 
> the telnic proposal seems to be for an open TLD.
> 
> So I think you are only criticizing the pulver proposal?
> 
> My personal comment is that I'd like to propose to ICANN that no 
> application for a purpose that can easily be fulfilled using a subdomain of 
> an existing domain be accepted - but that could easily be taken to reject 
> ALL proposals, and that argument was lost long ago.....
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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