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</head><body><p><br></p><p><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Dear Dessalegn</span></p><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">> - countries change currency names,</blockquote></blockquote><p>Yes, but not that often. Country names also change occasionally with consequences for cccTLDs etc.</p><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">> old currency names availability for application?</span></blockquote><p>There are quite of those in Europe, since the €. e.g. DEM, FRF, BEF etc. I would just ask the local central bank.to decide.<br><br>CW</p><p><br></p><p>PS: I have no opinion nor knowledge about crypto-currencies.</p><p><br></p><blockquote type="cite">El 20 de octubre de 2018 a las 12:58 Dessalegn Yehuala <mequanint.yehuala@gmail.com> escribió:<br><br><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Apologies:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>Correction to on one of the items described in the previous email:</div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">- countries change currency names, how about old currency names availability for application?</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Kind regards,</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Dessalegn</span><div style="font-family: sans-serif;" class="ox-2d4390e82e-elided-text" dir="auto"><blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 16.83px; color: #575757;">Sent from Samsung tablet.</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div class="ox-2d4390e82e-gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 20 Oct 2018, 11:10 mequanint.yehuala, <<a href="mailto:mequanint.yehuala@gmail.com">mequanint.yehuala@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div><div>Dear WT5 members,</div><div><br></div><div>Currency code protection is a very delicate issue and there seems to be preventive rights obsession within WT5 that disregards freedom of expression by increasing the pool of protected not only geographic string identifiers but also strings which have geographic indications of what so ever. That said, how is WT5 going to resolve the following issues?</div><div>- emerging currencies such as crypto currency</div><div>- countries change currency names, how about old currency names availability for protection?</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Dessalegn</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size: 85%; color: #575757;" dir="auto">Sent from Samsung tablet.</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5 mailing list<br>Gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5@icann.org<br>https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5</blockquote></body></html>