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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I agree with Tim and believe that the reserving
of gTLD strings from registration at a second level should be dropped for all
new gTLDs.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>All new gTDL should be treated the same as
each other.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I do not believe or know of any adverse affects
that would occur from this being dropped<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-registrars@gnso.icann.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Tim Ruiz<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, April 27, 2007 12:54
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Registrar Constituency<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Ray Fassett; Liz Williams<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [registrars] RE: PDP
Dec 05: Reserved Names Working Group: response needed</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>There are currently numerous ccTLDs that register at the third level
from .com.ccTLD, .net.ccTLD, and .org.ccTLD. There are no known/documented
adverse affects that I am aware of.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Currently every two letter ASCII country code is registered at the
second level in .com. A large number, if not all, are currently
in use. In fact, CentralNIC has made a thriving business of registering
third level names off of .us.com, .uk.com, and many others. There are no
known/documented adverse affects that I am aware of.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Info.com, biz.com, travel.com, museum.com, jobs.com, and aero.com
(as examples) are all currently registered with no known/documented adverse
affects that I am aware of. In fact, all have been registered and in use
long before the corresponding gTLDs were even applied for and that didn't seem
to deter the subsequent applicants for those gTLD strings.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>With the upcoming introduction of possibly dozens of new gTLDs, many
composed of generic strings, the number of legacy second level registrations of
these proposed gTLD strings in numerous other TLDs is only going to grow. I am
not aware of any documented evidence that it will create adverse affects.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>If the rule of reserving gTLD strings from registration at
the second level is maintained the list of reserved names will become
unmanageable and needlessly restrict valuable and useful names from
registration further restricting the name space. It will also create a
growing imbalance in the way various gTLDs are treated with regard to the
names they are allowed to accept registrations for.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I would suggest that this reserved name requirement be dropped for all
new gTLDs, and that existing gTLDs be allowed to request these strings to
be unreserved and that ICANN would not unreasonably deny such requests.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
Tim Ruiz<br>
The Go Daddy Group, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>-------- Original Message --------<br>
Subject: [registrars] RE: PDP Dec 05: Reserved Names Working Group: <br>
response needed<br>
From: "Nevett, Jonathon" <jnevett@networksolutions.com><br>
Date: Thu, April 26, 2007 8:09 am<br>
To: "Liz Williams" <liz.williams@icann.org>, "Registrar
Constituency"<br>
<registrars@gnso.icann.org><br>
Cc: "Ray Fassett" <rfassett@employmedia.com><br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Registrars:<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Please see the following note from Liz
Williams with the ICANN staff. Please provide any comments on this issue
to Liz, Ray, and the list. It doesn’t make sense to try to get a
formal constituency position in less than a week.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Thanks.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Jon<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Liz Williams [mailto:liz.williams@icann.org] <br>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 2:56 AM<br>
To: <st1:PersonName u2:st="on">Nevett, Jonathon</st1:PersonName> ; Tony Holmes;
David W. Maher; Philip Sheppard; Kristina Rosette; Milton Mueller<br>
Cc: Ray Fassett<br>
Subject: PDP Dec 05: Reserved Names Working Group: response needed</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Hello everyone<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Ray Fassett is chairing a subgroup of the
Reserved Names Working <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Group and he's asked me to assist with
getting some additional <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>information from Constituencies. Could
you please respond to Ray <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>directly?<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>"A sub group of the GNSO Reserved Names
Working group is examining <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>the current practice that requires Registry
Operators to reserve from <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>registration gTLD strings at the second level
(and third level where <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>applicable). The purpose of this work
is to advance the progress of <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>PDP 05, new TLD’s. At this time,
we would like to request your <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>feedback to a possible recommendation that
would allow for <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>registration gTLD strings at the second
level. For example, the <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>current practice is that the .jobs Registry
Operator requires <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>permission from ICANN to unreserve
travel.jobs.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>If this reservation and ICANN approval
requirement did not exist for <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>new TLD’s, what adverse effects, if
any, would this have upon the <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>members of your constituency?<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Due the short time line the sub-group is
working within to be of <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>beneficial service to the work of PDP 05, we
respectfully request <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>feedback from your constituency no later than
end of business day, <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Tuesday May 1, 2007."<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Many thanks.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Liz<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Senior Policy Counselor<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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