Sorry Avri - it is very confusing having all these option indeed :) - we are only talking about round 1 and, when I said I could work with option 7, I was thinking only round 1. The option needs to be there. the names of Olympic and red cross were not considered by ICANN as reserved, so elevating them to this status indefinitely is seriously problematic. KK Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis, Senior Lecturer, Director of Postgraduate Instructional Courses Director of LLM Information Technology and Telecommunications Law University of Strathclyde, The Law School, Graham Hills building, 50 George Street, Glasgow G1 1BA UK tel: +44 (0)141 548 4306 http://www.routledgemedia.com/books/The-Current-State-of-Domain-Name-Regulation-isbn9780415477765 Selected publications: http://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=501038 Website: www.komaitis.org -----Original Message----- From: NCSG-Discuss [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Avri Doria Sent: Τρίτη, 14 Φεβρουαρίου 2012 10:45 πμ To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] Questions/Options for Protection of IOC/Red Cross Names at Top Level On 14 Feb 2012, at 10:35, Konstantinos Komaitis wrote: > I could work with option 7 :) I lost track of what option 7 means: the names are forever reserved, kind of like example, and no one ever can have them, including the IOC or Red Cross? avri