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

[Greg Shatan]

I’m well aware of the scope of the WG.  However, we don’t operate in a
vacuum, and this case is both relevant and instructive — in terms of issues
and arguments and for outcomes.

Greg

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 1:24 PM Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
> Farzaneh
>
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Carlos Raul Gutierrez <
> 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> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks Greg.
>>>
>>> Javier Rúa-Jovet
>>>
>>> +1-787-396-6511
>>> twitter: @javrua
>>> skype: javier.rua1
>>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/javrua
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 29, 2018, at 2:05 PM, Greg Shatan <gregshatanipc at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I thought this article would be of interest to WT5.
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> From: Greg Shatan <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>
>>>
>>>
>>> France seizes France.com <http://france.com/> from man who’s had it
>>> since ‘94, so he sues - Ars Technica
>>>
>>>
>>> https://apple.news/AxM_G3MkGSXW8YOXTibo8wg
>>>
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