[comments-gtlds] .IBC - International Business Corporation

["Jim Fleming" <jfleming@anet.com>]

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>From: "Robert F. Connelly" <rconnell@psi-japan.com>
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>if .firm were to be one of your cTLDs, it would require that the Registrant
>forward to the Registrar a credible  proof that the corporation,
partnership
>or sole proprietorship exists.
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>Instead of .FIRM, you could also consider .IBC and have the
>community of experts around the world who specialize in
>International Business Corporations work to sponsor such a
>TLD. I am not sure that people from the ISOC, IAHC, IETF etc.
>are the best people to be trying to engineer TLDs.
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>See also...
>http://www.bviibc.com/
>...note, 300,000 registrations since 1984...this is a tad larger
>than the ISOC...
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>Jim Fleming
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>P.S. I am only using .IBC as an example. I assume that if
>people want and IBC name badly, that they will vote via the
>-DLD mechanism and create names like NAME-IBC.COM
>and those names will appear in future surveys. At the moment,
>people seem to prefer -INC as shown here...
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>http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/icann-current/msg00342.html
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