.tel-Telnic/Telname comments
Madrid, 28 April 2004
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN)
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6601
United States of America
Dear Sirs,
I, Ramiro Sánchez de Lerín, attorney in fact and Vice Secretary of
the Company and of the Board of Directors of Telefónica, S.A.,
global telecommunications services operator, acting for and on behalf
thereof, appear before this Organisation, ICANN, and in relation
relation to the .tel application, the new sponsored top-level domain
(sTLD) application submitted by Telname Limited, hereby, within the
"public comment period for Proposed Sponsored Top-Level Domains" open
from 1 to 30 April 2004, I express Telefonica's view that the
aforementioned .tel proposal should not be successful and the grounds
on which its objection is based and on which, according to the law,
ICANN should not approve that proposal.
I detail those grounds in the doc attached to this letter, where you
can find, in summary, that: the .tel/Telname application is not a
simple application on a new TLD and its approval is not within the
area of competence and the powers of ICANN, that it does not satisfy
the requirements to be a "sponsored top level domain", that it does
not take into account national and international regulations nor the
international community, and that it has serious shortcomings as
regards intellectual property, data, privacy, consumer protection and
competition.
By reason of the foregoing, I request that ICANN, deeming the comments
contained in the enclosed document to have been made by Telefónica in
due time and form, having examined and assessed and in accordance with
those comments, should reject the .tel proposal made by Telname
Limited.
Yours faithfully,
(See attached file: Alegaciones .tel-TELNIC.pdf)
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