Hi everyone

I have drafted yet another late public comment. It is a rough draft but I
am sending it to get enough feedback. It is a complex matter and we might
not have enough time to submit to PC.

We only have 5 days (17 August is the deadline).

So what is the public comment about?

In a nutshell, at the moment if you want to register  the domain name
[in.love] you have to first request the government of India for approval
because their country code is ".IN". This has resulted in a bunch of
"reserved" domain names.

In this public comment, we need to say  whether we approve of the criteria
that  ICANN has come up with  to avoid confusion between generic two letter
domain names and corresponding country codes.

I think criterion number 1 is a disaster and  it is drafted in a way that
entitles all the governments and cctld operators (which are sometimes
businesses) to two letter second level domain in new gtlds,  for no good
 reason.  You might not agree with me or think that I have gotten something
wrong. please let me know.

If this draft is not too bad and we get enough comments on it, we can
submit it to NCSG PC. If not I will submit it myself and name whoever
endorses it.

Here is the doc.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ynHrEmG2l1_Zas6093VsPIKKEVqn_SMU-nkgQwcY7wQ/edit?usp=sharing

Best

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Farzaneh