<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Robin</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 29, 2018, at 3:36 PM, farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" class="">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div>
<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Carlos Raul Gutierrez <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:carlosraul@gutierrez.se" target="_blank" class="">carlosraul@gutierrez.se</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="">Thanks Greg!<br class="">
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Very interesting but I'm afraid our scope is limited to the top level.....<div class=""><div class="h5"><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On April 29, 2018 1:31:59 PM CST, Javier Rua <<a href="mailto:javrua@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">javrua@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Thanks Greg.<br class=""><br class=""><div id="m_-2433815002456439413AppleMailSignature" class="">Javier Rúa-Jovet<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">+1-787-396-6511</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">twitter: @javrua</span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class="">skype: javier.rua1</span></div><div class=""><font style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" class=""><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/javrua" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank" class="">https://www.linkedin.com/in/<wbr class="">javrua</a> </font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""><br class="">On Apr 29, 2018, at 2:05 PM, Greg Shatan <<a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">gregshatanipc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">I thought this article would be of interest to WT5.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Greg</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br class="">From: Greg Shatan <<a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">gregshatanipc@gmail.com</a>><br class="">Date: Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 12:37 PM<br class="">Subject: France seizes <a href="http://france.com/" target="_blank" class="">France.com</a> from man who’s had it since ‘94, so he sues - Ars Technica<br class="">To: <<a href="mailto:gregshatanipc@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">gregshatanipc@gmail.com</a>><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">France seizes <a href="http://france.com/" target="_blank" class="">France.com</a> from man who’s had it since ‘94, so he sues - Ars Technica<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://apple.news/AxM_G3MkGSXW8YOXTibo8wg" target="_blank" class="">https://apple.news/AxM_<wbr class="">G3MkGSXW8YOXTibo8wg</a><br class=""></div></div></div>
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