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.dubai is a proposed gTLD
not a ccTLD.
*****************************************************With regards
to the comment made by ccTLD .ae:
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"The
ccTLD of .ae would like to express its concern and ovservation on the proposed newTLD
.dubai. .ae is the two letter code of the United Arab Emirates ( UAE). "
and further:
“Hence; the establishement of .dubai would be likely rise to confusion ( Likelihood
of confusion ), misleading, and infringenet to .ae right of use of .dubai and conflict
to its business ( service and goods). “
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This
submitted comment, made by Etisalat representative and the holder of the ccTLD .ae.
(Etisalat is the local tele- monopoly within UAE).
Unfortunate, the application
made by DTEC & MFZA, Dubai Technology, Electronic Commerce and Media Free Zone Authority,
has not been posted nor listed in the way the application has been made. The .dubai
proposal, as it can been seen and understood by the description in the application,
was and is meant to be a specific gTLD suitable for business, especially at Dubai
Internet City and business, enterprises who would like to have a gTLD approach, rather
than a ccTLD.
It is not possible to consider .dubai without considering .go. The
same principals that underlie .go also apply to .dubai.
.go is a truly new gTLD
which add great value to the whole Internet Society and especially the economy of
the Federation - UAE.
The applicant of .dubai are not at all trying to infringing
on the ccTLD .ae and there is no, what so ever confusions, misleading nor infringements
in-between this “words” and there is a big different between a gTLD and a ccTLD.
There
is no other authority nor sovereignty who understand this better then HH General
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai Crown Prince and UAE Defense Minister,
who by his great initiative and vision of creating DTEC & MFZA, Dubai Technology,
Electronic Commerce and Media Free Zone Authority, known as Dubai Internet City,
truly lifts the Federation to global recognition.
The proposed gTLD is to be seen
from the perspective of an vertical trading community, whereby a gTLD would add and
contribute with substantial values to the whole Federal Society of UAE as well as
serve as an enabler for the region and bring UAE and Dubai to become a connectivity
hub and a home for the cyber world.
The comment made by the ISP and Tele-monopoly,
seams more to have been made with the interest of protecting and conserve the monopoly
and extend it to the global Internet Society.
By having made this personal reflection,
I urge ICANN to continue their hard work of open up and bring out stability and reward
initiatives, who both are bringing large innovative values and new quality thinking
into the Internet Society as well are willing to undertake and build up a regional
operation in a global network of individual who can been seen as a new generation
gTLD as well as a new chapter in the history of Internet.
I salute the work end
efforts ICANN and its board and all the involved individuals are doing, we hope in
the future that also Dubai Internet City and our planned authority DiDRA ( http://www.didra.org/)
will be able to contribute with a lot.
Thanks
Lars Olof Kanngard
Business
Development Manager -DIC
Executive Project Manager of DiDRA