Hmmmm, actually who should really get dot paris for example???? to illustrate what Mawaki just said look below.<br><br>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=SAM%7CBO%7CBL003%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Bolivia (El Beni)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=NAM%7CCA%7CON%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Canada (Ontario)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=NAM%7CCA%7CYT%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Canada (Yukon Territory)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=AFR%7CCG%7CCF009%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Brazzaville (Pool)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=AFR%7CCG%7CCF010%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Brazzaville (Sangha)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=EUR%7CFR%7CFR012%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
France (Ile-De-France)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=AFR%7CGA%7CGB003%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Gabon (Moyen-Ogooue)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=AFR%7CGA%7CGB007%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Gabon (Ogooue-Lolo)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=CAC%7CHT%7CHA003%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Haiti (Grand' Anse)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=CAC%7CHT%7CHA004%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Haiti (Nord)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=CAC%7CHT%7CHA008%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Haiti (Sud)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=NAM%7CMX%7CMX005%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Mexico (Chiapas)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=CAC%7CPA%7CPM006%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Panama (Herrera)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=ASI%7CPH%7CRP007%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Philippines (Antique)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=ASI%7CPH%7CRP071%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Philippines (Maguindanao)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=CAC%7CPR%7CPR000%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=AFR%7CST%7CTP002%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Sao Tome And Principe (Sao Tome)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=AFR%7CTG%7CTO000%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Togo (*)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=MEA%7CTR%7CTU000%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Turkey (*)</span></a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&traveler=0&loccode=EUR%7CUA%7CUP015%7CPARIS"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">
Paris,
Ukraine (Odessa)</span></a></li></ul>
<br>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: <a href="http://www.icann.org/correspondence/gurry-letter-to-cerf-lynn-21feb03.htm">
http://www.icann.org/correspondence/gurry-letter-to-cerf-lynn-21feb03.htm</a> <br>"".....Following consideration of the question of the protection of country
names against abusive registrations by the <a href="http://ecommerce.wipo.int/domains/sct/documents/index.html">two
special sessions of the SCT</a> mentioned above, the WIPO General Assembly,
<a href="http://www.wipo.int/documents/en/document/govbody/wo_gb_ga/pdf/wo_ga_28_7.pdf">in
October 2002, remitted the question for further consideration by the SCT</a>.
The SCT met for this purpose in November 2002 and <a href="http://www.wipo.int/sct/en/documents/session_9/pdf/sct9_8.pdf">adopted
a decision</a> 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 <a href="http://www.icann.org/correspondence/gurry-letter-to-cerf-lynn-21feb03.htm#ANNEX2">Annex 2 to this letter</a>......""<br><br>Other links current and historical: <a href="http://www.icann.org/committees/JWGW2/">
http://www.icann.org/committees/JWGW2/</a><br><a href="http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-06oct03.htm">http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-06oct03.htm</a><br><a href="http://www.icann.org/committees/gac/communique-25mar03.htm">
http://www.icann.org/committees/gac/communique-25mar03.htm</a><br>and more discussion on the subject on the GNSO list at: <a href="http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/mail2.html#03415">http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/mail2.html#03415
</a><br>Mawaki and Sophia can tell you more about this.<br>Some countries have been calling for protection of their cultural heritage -- cities, cheeses, wines, special patterns names, etc....but not an easy task...<br><br>
Pour les Francophones, le sujet est toujours d'actualite par exemple en France: <a href="http://www.cawa.fr/depot-des-noms-de-communes-en-fr-article001128.html">http://www.cawa.fr/depot-des-noms-de-communes-en-fr-article001128.html
</a><br><br>AR<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Vika Mpisane</b> <<a href="mailto:vika@zadna.org.za">vika@zadna.org.za</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks Mawaki. It's do-able & may raise an interesting dispute resolution<br>process where you register <a href="http://dakar.sn">dakar.sn</a> and I run afterwards to register a<br>.dakar TLD:-) But that's the reason why ICANN's policy processes exist & may
<br>be it's high time ICANN should start anticipating this???<br><br><br></blockquote></div>