new top level domains

[garydale@xxxxxxxxxx]

I disagree with the entire approach ICANN is taking. You should be restricting 
TLDs and establishing rules to stop the proliferation of domain names.

Firstly I suggest that you correct the historic blunder of not enforcing 
country codes. Only the international component of a multinational organization 
should use the regular TLDs. Groups headquartered within a single nation should 
use the country codes as their TLD. 

For example, the International Red Cross should be redcross.org, while the 
American Red Cross would be redcross.org.us. Similarly a corporation like 
General Motors would have its international site as gm.com but its Canadian 
operation would be gm.com.ca. A company that is only registered in a single 
nation should never be .com. It should always be .com plus the country code.

Every TLD should be discrete. For example .biz and .com refer to the same types 
of organizations, so .biz should be eliminated. .law could exist for legal 
firms and lawyers but only if they were prohibited from registering as .com. 
.info could exist by only for firms whose business is providing information. 

ICANN should however maintain TLDs for each character set. Chinese, Latin, 
Arabic, etc. should be given equal status. A Chinese equivalent of .com, for 
example, should be used to direct traffic to the Chinese language web site of a 
multinational corporation, while .com would direct traffic to a Latin-character 
set site.

You should implement .xxx AND prohibit sites whose business is "adult 
entertainment" from registering as anything but .xxx or .xxx plus a country 
code.

Every organisation should be prohibited from using domain names not related to 
their company name. For example, a corporate advertising site for a spiderman 
movie should be something like spiderman.pictures.sony.com. Specifically, 
companies shouldn't be allowed to register a domain for a product.

Recognizing that the world is made up of more than one culture and one 
language, I support the use of national character sets for domain names. 
Countries should be free to establish registries for their country codes in 
whatever language(s) they prefer providing that unicode is used and not some 
other character encoding.

If China wishes to use chinese characters they should be allowed to. If they 
also want to register domains in english to promote international use, they 
could have a company using www.mycompany.com.ch for English pages and an 
equivalent Chinese language site using Chinese characters. 

ICANN should bring order to the Internet, not allow it to decay futher into 
anarchy. I believe the current plans to allow unrestricted expansion of the TLD 
system is based on a free market ideology and not on good engineering 
principles. I urge you to reverse your course.