Re: [wg-c] The scope of gTLDs

["Kevin J. Connolly" <CONNOLLK@rspab.com>]

There is a middle course through this muddle.

(1)  Thesis:  a gTLD is one which imposes no prior constraint on who may register a SLD name under it, nor on what the "content of the domain" (whatever that means) may be.

(2)  Antithesis:  There exists such a thing as a chartered gTLD.

(3)  Synthesis:  Neither the registry nor the registrar will act as name cop to prevent anyone from registering a SLD name under a gTLD which has a charter.  Neither will the registry or registrar do anything to take the domain name away from someone who (for an obvious example) uses mcdonald.per to complain about the evils of eating the flesh of your ancestors (those ancestors having been reincarnated in bovine mode).  Someone else can engage in the role of being name cop; the charter serves only to inject some differentiated meaning into the gTLD so that if mcdonald.per were being used as a virtual community for that ilk of Scot, the cyberjacking trademark interests (pause for Darth Vader theme background music) will be foiled when they file their lawsuit or perform the UDRP tango.

Kevin J. Connolly

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