<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Nicolas Adam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nickolas.adam@gmail.com" target="_blank">nickolas.adam@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
On 06/10/2014 10:59 AM, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
> I won't see a reason why lagos govt should not have right over .lagos for instance.
</div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">I do. Lagos govt. won't have “better” rights than, e.g. Región de los
Lagos[1] in Chile, one of the 1st level administrative subdivisions of
that country. Or the Lagos family (which of those?), or the Lagos
jewelry company, or the Portuguese wine[2], or any of the six Spanish
inhabited places named Lagos, or the French commune in Pyrénées-
Atlantiques, or the Portuguese city (which has been there since
Roman times), or the state of Lagos in South Sudan, or the
Mexican city now called Lagos de Moreno but traditionally known
as Lagos, or ...
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Nicolas Adam wrote:
> Same goes for <a href="http://patagonia.ar" target="_blank">patagonia.ar</a>
Unfortunately, not. Patagonia is a region shared by Argentina and
Chile. The Amazon basin is a region shared by Brazil, Peru,
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and
the French Guiana.
[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Lagos_Region" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Lagos_Region</a>
[2] T. Stevenson (2005) "The Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia"
p. 332. Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 0-7566-1324-8
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</blockquote></div>Good point @Enrique and i definitely agree with the reasoning above. However i doubt the solution to fixing this is to allow such strings to be available to global tld...well maybe its the least complicated approach.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra">Perhaps bidding between legitimate regions may be the closest compromise. ;)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br><div dir="ltr">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><font color="#888888"><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;font-family:garamond,serif">
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