<div dir="auto"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from my mobile<br>Kindly excuse brevity and typos</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 6, 2017 2:08 AM, "Sam Lanfranco" <<a href="mailto:lanfran@yorku.ca">lanfran@yorku.ca</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font color="#000000">That <a href="http://ng.com" target="_blank">ng.com</a> might be confused with com.ng
(for a nonosecond)</font></font></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">SO: Actually if the confusion can be that temporal then it will not be a problem. I think it may take X more amount of time if the content on both addresses happen to be exact replica. It seem we so much over estimate capabilities of a typical internet user who largely focus on the content (especially users in regions where Internet is still a luxury).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font color="#660000"><font color="#000000"> is no more a valid reason than arguing that
President's Choice food products (in Canada) need a name change
because someone might think that they are recommended by Donald
Trump. I might add that Opium perfume and Canoe cologne contain
neither opium nor canoes, but the names are allowed to stand.
Words, and even two letter sequences, only have meaning in
context, and there is no legitimate context for ownership claims
here.<br></font></font></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">SO: Now that is funny :(</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font color="#660000"><font color="#000000">
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To cite a Turkish cityTLD domain name, we should not suffer <a href="https://bullshit.ist/" target="_blank">bullshit.ist</a>
arguments for arbitrary capture of two letter second level
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There is no need for a committee here. ..... full stop.<br></font></font></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">SO: That fine, for me it's not about ownership persee (govt can argue that for all they care) it's about whether we can get some structuring and order for once in this pot of soup called tld, but I guess that ship already sailed and all we can do is make increased effort to educate typical users on the mess we continue to create.</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Regards</span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font color="#660000"><font color="#000000">
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Sam Lanfranco, NCSG<br>
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