Numbers and Name Committee of Korea Network Information Center had decided a recommendation
to ICANN in last meeting of Nov. 3 as follows. -------
Some Recommendations
on New gTLDs
1. ICANN should select as many and diverse gTLDs as possible.
This will allow the Internet community including ICANN to examine possible impacts
of the introduction of new gTLDs and ensure the steady continuation of further introduction
of new gTLDs in future.
2. One or more gTDLs competing with or comparable to .com
domain should be selected. It will resolve many problems existing in the .com name
space such as over-population, limited availability of meaningful names, etc.
3.
A variety of geographical locations of registry operation should be top priority.
4.
Some applications for new gTLDs are closely related with specific
region names
such as .asia and .africa. If these gTLDs are to be handled directly by one single
entity, especially commercial one, it could result in conflicts with other potential
stakeholders in future. Therefore, without any positive concession and consensus
from them, this type of gTLDs should not be accepted.
5. ICANN should consider
a different approach for new gTLDs representing public interest or non-profit groups.
For instance, ICANN could select new gTLDs and invite tenders with a special contract
condition.
6. The total sum of the non-refundable fee of USD $50,000 for the
submission
of an application should be much more lowered. It is a
fundamental barrier to
the entry into the proposal process. The fee must be determined following the analysis
of expenditure details in scrutiny.
7. To keep the coherent principle in all gTLDs,
two existing gTLDs, .gov, and .mil, should be transformed to the 2nd level subdomains
of .us domain.