Re: [ICANN-EU] .EU

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

Jeannette,
As you will see in a other post of mine for which I make some
reasearch, ".eu" was reserved by ISO for the "euro" zone. The ISO
does not give a green light as it has not to interfere with IANA.

ICANN takes advantage of the opportunity to solve the situation
and to sign a contract with a ccTLD proceeding from non contracted
yet NICs. This is like ".tv" becoming a de facto gTLD.

1) Denmark, Greece and UK are defacto enrolled under the Euro.
     - they may object
     - the euro is losing the opportunity of a TLD

2) this behaviour is unfair to other less "important" demands by
     other countries (like Anjouan).

3) unequal treatment is forbidden by the ICANN bylaws except
     to promote competition among registries and amon registrars.
     This would confirm that the ICANN sees ".eu" as an alternative
     to ".com" and officializes the use of ccTLDs like ".tv") as
     gTLDs (NSI sells .tv, .cc .to, etc...)

Jefsey


At 23:59 29/09/00, you wrote:
>Jeanette,
>
>Jeanette Hofmann wrote:
>...
> >
> > I don't care very much about .EU personally. I've never quite
> > understood what about this special TLD is so very important. What I
> > do care about, however, is the TLD's names policy. If we need .EU in
> > the first place it should be open for all Europeans. Isn't it rediculous
> > that non-EU members such as Switzerland have to go begging for
> > admission?
> >
> > jeanette
> >
>
>Yes, but the internal policy for .eu is outside the scope of ICANN. We
>can blame the European Commision if Switzerland (and Norway) must go
>begging for admission.
>
>Best regards,
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