[Gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5] France seizes France.com from man who’s had it since ‘94, so he sues - Ars Technica

[Robin Gross]

It is also a reminder of  the level of bullying that some governments are capable of doing in this space and their disregard for the legitimate rights of others to use words in the DNS.  This is a serious concern -- to see such little regard for the freedom of expression rights to use words with a geographic meaning.  Absent an actual internationally agreed legal rule that holds people can’t use the word “France” or other words with geographic meanings, it would be a huge mistake for ICANN to adopt such an anti-innovation and pro-censorship position in domain name policy as demanded by some govts here.

Robin



> On Apr 29, 2018, at 3:36 PM, farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Great, lets keep it limited. But thanks Greg for reminding us where we can end up..   some  supported two-letter second level domain names that correspond to cctlds to go to governments and  cctld managers in new gtlds. Some of those were generic pronouns like in and it. But no one had mercy on generic names and no justifiable reason was given other than oh governments own everything when it comes to their cctld... or at least can claim ownership. The irony? Some of those cctld managers are actually private companies benefiting handsomely from this. 
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> 
> Farzaneh
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> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Carlos Raul Gutierrez <carlosraul at gutierrez.se <mailto:carlosraul at gutierrez.se>> wrote:
> Thanks Greg!
> 
> Very interesting but I'm afraid our scope is limited to the top level.....
> 
> 
> On April 29, 2018 1:31:59 PM CST, Javier Rua <javrua at gmail.com <mailto:javrua at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Thanks Greg.
> 
> Javier Rúa-Jovet
> 
> +1-787-396-6511
> twitter: @javrua
> skype: javier.rua1
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/javrua <https://www.linkedin.com/in/javrua> 
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> 
> On Apr 29, 2018, at 2:05 PM, Greg Shatan <gregshatanipc at gmail.com <mailto:gregshatanipc at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> I thought this article would be of interest to WT5.
>> 
>> Greg
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>> From: Greg Shatan <gregshatanipc at gmail.com <mailto:gregshatanipc at gmail.com>>
>> Date: Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 12:37 PM
>> Subject: France seizes France.com <http://france.com/> from man who’s had it since ‘94, so he sues - Ars Technica
>> To: <gregshatanipc at gmail.com <mailto:gregshatanipc at gmail.com>>
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>> 
>> France seizes France.com <http://france.com/> from man who’s had it since ‘94, so he sues - Ars Technica
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