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<div>By Milton Mueller<br>The introduction of internationalized domain names (IDNs) offers the<br>world one of the best opportunities it will ever have to introduce more<br>diversity and competition into the domain name registry market. ...
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<div>"The introduction of internationalized domain names (IDNs) offers</div>
<div>the world one of the best opportunities it will ever have to introduce </div>
<div>more diversity and competition into the domain name registry market...</div>
<div> ....Unfortunately, the politics within ICANN are threatening that opportunity. There </div>
<div>is a move afoot to give country code TLD registries a free gift of an IDN top level </div>
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<div>Herein in this report is an analysis of the best layed out plan </div>
<div>on the future of IDNs. If this is not stopped in due time, IDN </div>
<div>gtlds risk being controlled by ccTLDs. IDN appears a complicated</div>
<div>issue from the surface, but after my two year experiance on the </div>
<div>gNSO council, I have learned that the issue is rather not technical.</div>
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<div>As part of IDN WG, we have fought hard for this not to happen,</div>
<div>it is a great interest to me given that Amharic is one of the well </div>
<div>developed languages which has opportunities for IDN implementation.</div>
<div>But if you dig deep in this report, there is a risk of ALL DE FACTO </div>
<div>going to the ccTLDs, while the gTLDs are left out cold in the marketplace </div>
<div>in pratcical terms. The article argues that it would be unfair distribution </div>
<div>of rights to incumbents, who in many cases have not necessarily </div>
<div>shown in the past that they are worthy recipients to ensure the best </div>
<div>interests of the public being served.</div>
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<div>Food for thought!</div>
<div>Regards.</div><span class="sg">
<div>Sophia</div>
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