At 3:13 AM +0000 4/4/02, David Farrar wrote:
Incidentially ICANN is moving to ban ccTLD (and country) names at the 2nd level in gTLDs because some Govts have asked for this. But that is for political not technical reasons
So much for ICANN being a "technical co-ordination body". ICANN wrote a blanket ban on 1 & 2 char .info names into the registry's contract. At one stage a few months back the .info registry mistakenly deleted the blocking code in the registration system and word got around fast. All 2 char .infos had been registered within a few hours. Most I think via Dotster who did not have 2 char blocking checks in their pre-registration code. Later, when the error was discover, the registry deleted all the registrations and Dotster refunded. -- Andrew P. Gardner barcelona.com stolen, stmoritz.com stays. What's uniform about the UDRP? We could ask ICANN to send WIPO a clue, but do they have any to spare? Get active: http://www.tldlobby.com - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog