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Re: Is stuttering the price to pay?

Bill, 

> > > - Why ".tm.int" when it can be ".tm"?
> tm from a global perspective will have to be run by some sort of
> International TM authority.  Therefore it makes sense to put it 
> under .int.
>         .TM has the added property of being in the ISO 3166 list.

I don't know how many names have already been registered for
under .tm (Turkmenistan). Certainly not many. There is no 
problem in making an exception for Turkmenistan if there 
already is one for GB alias UK.

The fact is that the word "tm" already has substantial
"linguistic goodwill" as a trademark identifier, whereas .tm
as a country identifier for Turkmenistan is practically unknown. 
The financial result of a .tm gTLD is bound to be _much_ better 
than a .tm.int . Some of that money can be used
to improve Turkmenistan's connectivity, as a compensation
for the problems with changing its TLD identifier.


Regards,

Werner
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