+1000! my point exactly; If ICANN is attempting to perform such policing, then we'd better get them off that path soon enough. Cheers! sent from Google nexus 4 kindly excuse brevity and typos. On 27 Mar 2015 12:44, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: NCSG-Discuss im Auftrag von Carlos Afonso > Gesendet: Do 26.03.2015 18:00 > An: [log in to unmask] > Betreff: [NCSG-Discuss] Fwd: [ PFIR ] Harvard registers harvard.porn > > 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. > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: [ PFIR ] Harvard registers harvard.porn > Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:55:42 -0700 > From: PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List > <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List > <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > > > 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 ... > > --Lauren-- > Lauren Weinstein ([log in to unmask]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren > Founder: > - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org > - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info > Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: > http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info > Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy > Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com > Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein > Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein > Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com > > _______________________________________________ > pfir mailing list > http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir >