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

["Yvan G. Leclerc" <leclerc@ai.sri.com>]

Rick,

  Domain names in .geo do indeed belong to other entities.  They are called
GeoRegistries.  Any entity can apply for accreditation as a GeoRegistry and
register domain names in .geo.  The domain names correspond to servers that
are responsible for storing "geodata" refering to square areas of different
sizes called cells.  More than one GeoRegistry can register a domain name for
a given cell, thereby providing competition for cells.

  End-users, on the other hand, do not register domain names.  Instead, they
register "geodata", which is a summary of their data (web page, image, vrml
file, map, audio file, ...) that includes the location or area that the data
refers to (plus keywords, url to data, and other attributes).  Geodata
provides a much richer representation than a domain name, thereby enabling
more precise discovery of data in general, and more particularly, enabling
discovery of data according to the geographic location that the data refers to.

  Please read the TLD policies section for more details.

Yvan
dot-geo project director

Rick H Wesson wrote:
> 
> 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.....
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Harald Tveit Alvestrand, alvestrand@cisco.com
> > +47 41 44 29 94
> > Personal email: Harald@Alvestrand.no
> >
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