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Actually Anne you forgot Paris Hilton ;) may she need to invest in
domain registry business after going out the jail :)<br>
<br>
Anne-Rachel Inné wrote:
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cite="midbd1bfd500705151325h7f63eb84wd0c4c8308d7bde3d@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">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>
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<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>
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