RE: [gnso-rn-wg] Report for Other Names at the 2nd Level

["Shatan, Gregory S." <GShatan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This seems to conflict with the expert statement that .travel submitted
and which is a part of the Report.  It states:
 
Industry Names

The registry, following the recommendation of TTPC (the .travel
sponsor), has reserved industry names such as adventure, cruise, hotels,
airlines, restaurant, ticket etc., subject to development of policies at
a later time.  The travel community through TTPC feels that such
industry names have value for the community as a whole and should not be
registered by one particular travel service provider.

The .Travel registry has not yet released any of its reserved names and
has no immediate plans to do so.  

Perhaps this is a difference of opinion between TTPC and Tralliance.
Following Patrick's link, the ttpc.org website states:

 2. Premium Names 
Certain premium domain names (e.g., fun.travel, convention.travel,
olympics.travel) will be reserved by Tralliance and may be sold at a
premium price through an auction methodology.  Prior to the sale of any
premium name, Tralliance will obtain TTPC's approval of the name(s) to
be sold. 

This seems to conflict with the "value for the community as a whole"
concept above.  

Although outside the scope of our WG, it will be interesting to see the
reaction of the International Olympic Committee to Tralliance's
characterization of "olympics.travel" as name to be sold to the highest
bidder.


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From: Patrick Jones [mailto:patrick.jones@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:42 PM
To: Shatan, Gregory S.; 'GNSO RN WG'
Subject: RE: [gnso-rn-wg] Report for Other Names at the 2nd Level



Greg,

 

To clarify your reference to .travel below, on the March 8 (if not
earlier) I mentioned that the Travel Partnership Corporation has been
running a comment period within their sponsored community on a potential
premium name auction. Information about the announcement and comment
period is available at http://www.ttpc.org/announce.htm. This has not
yet been proposed to ICANN, but it at least demonstrates that Tralliance
has plans to potentially allocate these names.

 

Patrick

 

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From: owner-gnso-rn-wg@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-rn-wg@xxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Shatan, Gregory S.
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 9:28 AM
To: Gomes, Chuck; GNSO RN WG
Subject: RE: [gnso-rn-wg] Report for Other Names at the 2nd Level

 

As discussed on yesterday's call, please consider the following friendly
amendment to the this report, as follows, to be placed at the beginning
of section C.1:

 

These names differ from ICANN reserved names in that the names are
actually intended to be allocated by the Registries. Therefore, the
names arguably fall outside the remit of this particular Working Group.
However, allocation plans for these Registries are, in many cases,
uncertain and have no timing requirements. At least one registry
(.travel) has indicated it has no current plans to allocate these names.
Thus, it is quite possible that these names could remain unallocated for
extremely long periods of time, and become de facto reserved names.  In
order to avoid this result, registries should be encouraged to have
clear allocation plans with regard to these names, including plans with
regard to timing, with a goal to allocating these names within a
reasonable period of time.  It may also be preferable if these names
were set forth in an Appendix and considered during the approval process
for the for the TLD.  

 

Greg Shatan

 

 

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From: owner-gnso-rn-wg@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-rn-wg@xxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Gomes, Chuck
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 11:08 AM
To: GNSO RN WG
Subject: [gnso-rn-wg] Report for Other Names at the 2nd Level

Assuming that no later version of this report is sent to the list before
our meeting today, we will use this version to discuss recommendations
today.  Note that it appears that the full subgroup may not have reached
consensus on the recommendations but they will have opportunity to
participate in the discussion in our WG meeting.  Also, note that the
highlighted comments under the recommendations for each of the three
subcategories are my comments for discussion in our call today.

 

Chuck Gomes

 

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