[AfrICANN-discuss] on dots and cities --and more

[Anne-Rachel Inné]

Hmmmm, actually who should really get dot paris for example???? to
illustrate what Mawaki just said look below.


   - Paris, Bolivia (El
Beni)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=SAM%7CBO%7CBL003%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Canada
(Ontario)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=NAM%7CCA%7CON%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Canada (Yukon
Territory)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=NAM%7CCA%7CYT%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Brazzaville
(Pool)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=AFR%7CCG%7CCF009%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Brazzaville
(Sangha)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=AFR%7CCG%7CCF010%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, France
(Ile-De-France)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=EUR%7CFR%7CFR012%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Gabon
(Moyen-Ogooue)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=AFR%7CGA%7CGB003%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Gabon
(Ogooue-Lolo)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=AFR%7CGA%7CGB007%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Haiti (Grand'
Anse)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=CAC%7CHT%7CHA003%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Haiti
(Nord)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=CAC%7CHT%7CHA004%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Haiti
(Sud)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=CAC%7CHT%7CHA008%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Mexico
(Chiapas)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=NAM%7CMX%7CMX005%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Panama
(Herrera)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=CAC%7CPA%7CPM006%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Philippines
(Antique)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=ASI%7CPH%7CRP007%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Philippines
(Maguindanao)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=ASI%7CPH%7CRP071%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Puerto Rico (Puerto
Rico)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=CAC%7CPR%7CPR000%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Sao Tome And Principe (Sao
Tome)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=AFR%7CST%7CTP002%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Togo
(*)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=AFR%7CTG%7CTO000%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Turkey
(*)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=MEA%7CTR%7CTU000%7CPARIS>
   - Paris, Ukraine
(Odessa)<http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=EUR%7CUA%7CUP015%7CPARIS>


If you are interested, on country names, WIPO 2 has been been dealing with
the subject with ICANN for the past four/five years now and I am quoting
from text that you can read here:
http://www.icann.org/correspondence/gurry-letter-to-cerf-lynn-21feb03.htm
"".....Following consideration of the question of the protection of country
names against abusive registrations by the two special sessions of the
SCT<http://ecommerce.wipo.int/domains/sct/documents/index.html>mentioned
above, the WIPO General Assembly, in
October 2002, remitted the question for further consideration by the
SCT<http://www.wipo.int/documents/en/document/govbody/wo_gb_ga/pdf/wo_ga_28_7.pdf>.
The SCT met for this purpose in November 2002 and adopted a
decision<http://www.wipo.int/sct/en/documents/session_9/pdf/sct9_8.pdf>that
the short and long names of States, as set out in the United Nations
Terminology Bulletin, should be protected against identical and misleadingly
similar registrations as domain names by persons unconnected with the
constitutional authorities of the States concerned. It was recommended that
this protection should be implemented through an amendment of the UDRP and
should apply to all future registrations of domain names in the gTLDs.
Further details of the protection are set out in the text of the decision,
which is set out in Annex 2 to this
letter<http://www.icann.org/correspondence/gurry-letter-to-cerf-lynn-21feb03.htm#ANNEX2>
......""

Other links current and historical: http://www.icann.org/committees/JWGW2/
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-06oct03.htm
http://www.icann.org/committees/gac/communique-25mar03.htm
and more discussion on the subject on the GNSO list at:
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/mail2.html#03415
Mawaki and Sophia can tell you more about this.
Some countries have been calling for protection of their cultural heritage
-- cities, cheeses, wines, special patterns names, etc....but not an easy
task...

Pour les Francophones, le sujet est toujours d'actualite par exemple en
France:
http://www.cawa.fr/depot-des-noms-de-communes-en-fr-article001128.html

AR

On 5/15/07, Vika Mpisane <vika at zadna.org.za> wrote:
>
> Thanks Mawaki. It's do-able & may raise an interesting dispute resolution
> process where you register dakar.sn and I run afterwards to register a
> .dakar TLD:-) But that's the reason why ICANN's policy processes exist &
> may
> be it's high time ICANN should start anticipating this???
>
>
>
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