Hi Carlos.

Here is a good calculation:

we have thousands of languages in around 150 different scripts using different characters. All the characters (formed to words and combined with numbers) in the various scripts can constitute a domain name on the first, second or third level. 

If you take the number of Latin languages which can be related to the ASCII code, you have nearly 150 languages using the Latin script. In the German language alone we have around 500.000 words in our main dictonary. This brings us to about 50 Million words with Latin charaters which can be used as TLDs or SLDs etc. If you combine words (.greathyperinflation), you end up with hundreds of millions of potential TLDs and SLDs in ASCII only. Is there any way to police the use of words? And this would be ASCII only. What about the Hangu, Tamil or Hebrew language police? 

I see the dilemma with cases we have discussed as controversies sofar both on the TLD and the SLD Level (.xxx, .Amazon, .jihad). Some cases have been settled via courts or the UDRP. Wer have to test the new resolution mechanisms under the new gTLD program. We have to find ways how to rach rough consensus on names which have different meaning (and value) in different cultures. If there is good will, one can settle individual cases. If you have no good will, you can fight for words for centuries. Or you can introduce a language police which tells the four billion Internet users that it is not allowed that you use .anything in a domain name. And if you ignore it, than you have to spend years in a cyberjail (under California Law in Guantanamo)!!! 

see:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/langalph.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_writing_system

Best wishes

Wolfgang




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A terrible result of a new gTLDs' policy devoid of anti-extortion 
clauses. Hundreds of new gTLDs whose business model is based on $$$ 
gained with almost forceful preemptive registration... All in name of a 
neoliberal credo defending no restrictions for new domains. And we 
(NCSG/NCUC) have been mute on this.

Aren't the victims of this extortion a case for our human rights advocacy?

--c.a.

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Harvard registers harvard.porn

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/25/harvard-moves-protect-its-name-reserving-harvard-porn-domain/Ee7P8m1zS9dDMGg69FakXL/story.html

      In an effort to keep outsiders from corrupting their trademarks, area
      colleges are snapping up controversial domain names like ".porn" and
      ".adult" before they are available to the public for purchase this
      summer.

  - - -

And what are they going to do about harvard-porn.com and
harvardporn.com and harvardporn.org and harvard-porn.org and ...

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