[council] ICANN posting - area for universal acceptance of TLDs.

[Marilyn Cade]

Dear Tina,

I am very appreciative to see this action on the part of ICANN. 

Might I ask you for a short update, if you can, during the Council's Public
Forum? Just come along, if you would, and update the Council/and our
audience, about this new resource and invite interested parties to join the
discussion? 

I know that we all share a strong interest in addressing the remaining
challenges of visibility and "universal acceptance" of gTLDs. I've signed up
for the discussion forum already.

Thanks,

Marilyn 

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Subject: [council] ICANN posting - area for universal acceptance of TLDs.

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Please note that we today posted a new announcement of an area on the 
ICANN website - an area for universal acceptance of TLDs.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-20mar06.htm

This is part of an effort that has been underway for a while, to provide
information to the community and in particular to ISPs, application
developers, users, webmasters and others, about the complete range of
existing top-level domains (TLDs) - so that these can be used adequately.

As additional TLDs are incorporated into the root, a central and
authoritative source for information on TLDs becomes increasingly important.
Further, ICANN receives frequent inquiries regarding whether a given TLD 
is "real" or not.

As such this new area contain a variety of information, including: (i) a
list of the existing TLDs that are open for operation (both ccTLDs and
gTLDs), (ii) a discussion forum to discuss what additional option we 
have to promote the awareness of all TLDs further, (iii) coming 
information for a)common problems and solutions, and b) a TLD 
verification tool, which application developers can use to query the DNS 
to determine whether a TLD exists or not.

Please make sure that you provide your supporting organizations, 
advisory committees and any other working groups with a notification 
about this information.

Please let Karen or I know if you have any questions to the 
announcement, or perhaps suggestions for added information to this area.

Kind regards,
Tina

Tina Dam
Chief gTLD Registry Liaison
ICANN

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