Re: new TLDs by petition

[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 2:14 AM -0800 12/26/96, Mark Lottor wrote:

>   Potential customers would fill out a form or something on a web site
> (of the company proposing the new TLD, or maybe on an IAHC web site)
> that described the proposed TLD, its administrator, and associated
> charges.  The customer would fill out their name and 'sign' something
> saying they would more than likely acquire such a new second-level
> name under that TLD should it be approved.
>

They won't do it in the numbers you want because:

1. The TLD is not in the root
2. More than one registry may be petitioning for the same TLD
3. Paul Vixie is telling everyone the folk doing this are con-men
4. Specialized TLDs have focused audiences which are harder to reach
5. Corporations never commit to things that aren't tried and tested

>   When 10,000 (or some such large number) of applications have been
> collected they would be sent in to a committee (IAHC?) that would
> verify(?) the names and issue the new TLD.  New TLDs would be issued
> on a first-come-first-serve basis to whoever could collect the 10,000
> applicants first.
>

This number of 10,000 is just not realistic. Here is the *WHOLE* .INT zone:

ADSN.INT, ATMA.INT, COMMONWEALTH.INT, CTO.INT, ECMWF.INT, EFTA.INT,
ESA.INT, EU.INT, FFA.INT, IAI.INT, IFC.INT, INTELSAT.INT, IP4.INT,
IP6.INT , ITU.INT, NATO.INT, NSAP.INT, OHR.INT, OMPI.INT, WIPO.INT,
RDI.INT, RELIEFWEB.INT, SEANET.INT, SITA.INT, TPC.INT, WIPO.INT,
YMCA.INT

Obviously there aren't enough international treaty organizations to
justify their own TLD.

Regards,

Simon

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