Comments on New gTLDS

[elizabethvictor@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Comments from: Elizabeth Victor
        Title: Mom
 Organization: Victor Household


  1.  After reading the Initial Report, are there any other selection criteria
  which may be helpful for a new top level domain application round?




  2.  Thinking about the issue of application fees for any new top level domain
  application, is there merit in graduated application fees to assist
  applicants?




  3.  Taking into account the experiences from the 2000 and 2004 round of new
  top level domains, do you have further comments to make about streamlining
  the application process?




  4.  Thinking about ICANN's responsibility to ensure competition in registry
  services operation, do you have any additional comments about how to
  encourage applications which would serve needs which are not met by the
  existing top level domains?




  5.  Looking closely at the technical selection criteria section of the
  Report, are there any further comments which would assist with identifying
  appropriate base line technical criteria for new applications?




  6.  Do you have any further comment to make on the use of the first come
  first served system for processing applications and then whether auctions or
  lotteries are appropriate ways of resolving competition between applications?




  7.  Do you have any further views on the kinds of new TLDs that might be
  encouraged? Specifically, do members of the community expect the existing
  differentiation between sponsored, generic, chartered and open TLDs to
  remain?
  

I would like to propose a gTLD of .mom. This would be for information sites and
services for moms in general. Please let me know if this is possible and what
would it entail for me to sponsor a .mom TLD. Thanks, ev