On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 01:29:36AM -0500, Milton L Mueller ([log in to unmask]) wrote: > Can you point me to the international law that says only the > Peruvian government has a legal right to register the name "Peru" in > the domain name space? Amusingly, "peru" is a word in Finnish, or actually two: as a noun it means "potato" in a number of dialects (abbreviated from "peruna" in standard Finnish), and as a verb it means "cancel". A bit more relevant, e.g., "peru.org" and "peru.fi" belong to US and Finnish companies, respectively, selling travels to Peru, and I doubt they've asked permission from Peruvian government either. -- Tapani Tarvainen