Re: [alac] regional, cultural, city TLDs

["John R Levine" <johnl@xxxxxxxx>]

> Anyone could propose a new TLD but they have to use one of the
> ICANN-vetted "caterers" to host their party.
> Then I'm thinking something like trademark law process kicks in--

Take a look at the discussions on Susan Crawford's blog, notably these
two:

http://scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/11/1659005.html
http://scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/1/17/1682410.html

There are useful links to papers on domain auctions and the like.  The
problem with pure accreditation is that there would likely be a thousand
applicants, and although there seems to be little doubt that the roots
could support a thousand TLDs, it would be rather risky to add them all at
once.

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