[gtld-tech] Update to reserved names list for new gTLDs
Gould, James
JGould at verisign.com
Thu Sep 19 12:28:20 UTC 2013
I second Gavin's request. Can ICANN please provide an authoritative list
of the reserved names in a single consistent readable form based on what
is defined in Specification 5 of the Registry Agreement
<http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/agreement-approved-02jul13-en.
pdf>?
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JG
James Gould
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On 9/19/13 8:15 AM, "Gavin Brown" <gavin.brown at centralnic.com> wrote:
>On 19/09/2013 12:48, Luis Muñoz wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 19, 2013, at 4:33 AM, Gavin Brown wrote:
>>
>>> While it's very easy to extract useful data from ISO-3166, the two PDF
>>> documents I found are a different matter.
>>>
>>> Copying and pasting text (especially non-ASCII text) out of a PDF is
>>> potentially risky: when I tried using Adobe Reader on Mac OS X I had
>>> very little luck, getting either nothing at all or a series of junk
>>> characters.
>>
>> You'll find that some of these documents simply won't allow you to cut
>>& paste what you want, because parts of the text have been converted to
>>bitmaps inside the document.
>
>So the text will be have to be manually transcribed - by someone
>competent in each of the six official UN languages (or six people
>competent in one of the languages).
>
>Multiply that effort by N registry operators/backend operators, and
>that's an awful lot of unreliable, lossy, duplicated work.
>
>G.
>
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