[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]In a statement posted on ICANN's new gTLD program comment page by the ccNSO, ICANN's policy setting body for country code Top Level Domains requests that geographic names not be launched as gTLDs.
While acknowledging the vast amount of work ICANN staff has put into the second draft applicant guidebook, the ccNSO says "We still don’t see that the principle set forward by ccNSO Council (…)This principle states that all country names and territory names are ccTLDs – not gTLDs."
The ccNSO argues that geographic gTLDs would blur the existing difference between country code and generic domains so much that the two TLD classes could even disappear.
Changes are suggested for the next version of the draft guidebook which would state that country and territory names could not be requested as gTLDs, but that other types of geographic names such as city names (which fall outside the purview of the ccNSO Council principals), could be.
Click here to see the full ccNSO comments.[/FONT]
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