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<![endif]--> <table class="container" lang="container" dir="ltr" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" valign="top" style="width:100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="message-wrapper" style="color:#222;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <!--[if mso]><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" valign="top" style="border-collapse:separate;"><tr><td valign="top"><![endif]--> <div>We are working on the public comment for the recommendations for next round of new gtld applications. I thought I highlight some of the issues to stir a conversation here, to help the policy committee and the pen-holders with finalizing our comments. The report is 300 pages and my knowledge is truly limited so I am gonna send these emails in bite size (more or less) perhaps they can help with shaping our comment and being able to submit it:<br></div><div><br></div><div>I am going to discuss some of our high level principles that can be violated if these recommendations are adopted. Please chime in. </div><div><br></div><div>Here is our public comment: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SxCa4cn-NEiS_tea-jUP02DSG6IEzf_O4_MBPLUtxZs/edit">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SxCa4cn-NEiS_tea-jUP02DSG6IEzf_O4_MBPLUtxZs/edit</a></div><div><br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Trademark overreach: </b></div><div><b>Brand Registries (.Man) (or trademarking the generics as Konstantinos Komaitas coined the term)</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div> At the moment our public comment draft says that Brand registries should not be automatically allocated to brand owners. brand registry is somehow vague and I think could lead to trademark overreach. What if a brand corresponds to a generic name? .SHARP? .MAN? I think we should emphasize upon two things when opposing brands be given automatic allocation: 1. the inappropriate process of 2012 2. limit our claim to brands that are generic names. Look at this report on .Brand: <a href="https://dotbrandobservatory.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Feb-2017-websites-profiles.pdf">https://dotbrandobservatory.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Feb-2017-websites-profiles.pdf</a> </div><div>how many generic names do you see? </div><div><br></div><div>I think instead of asking that corporations applications for .example be limited, we should ask that generic names that happen to be brands should be open registries. so that someone can register: bat.man. Spec 13, clause 9.13 has a definition of .Brand which has to be revised. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The problem of trademarking generic terms was clearly set out by one of our then very active members in 2013 in this blog: <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/trademarking_generics_the_bank_fiasco/-ar">http://www.circleid.com/posts/trademarking_generics_the_bank_fiasco/-ar</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Also maybe we should think about other words. for example, international cartoon characters. I don't have a problem with a corporation wanting to register the name and have a registry operator but having it limited for its own purposes sounds like trademark overreach to me. I am in tears that I cannot register baqdadof.alibaba . But we can just compromise and just say generic names should not be trademarked in domain name space. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I was not a part of NCSG even when these discussions were happening. So enlighten me.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Closed Generics</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>closed generics are very bad ideas. They mean that registries can decide to close down the registry to anyone but their corporation and brands. Google abandoned the idea and then there was a ban imposed on closed generics. It can lead to trade mark overreach. Are there any opinions on that?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Community TLDs</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>I don't know if we need to discuss this in the comment but Community TLDs in my opinion especially when it comes to three letter words are bad ideas. Their criteria of registration qualification are also not very global. But this doesn't seem to be an issue at NCSG so I am just going to opress my desire to ever register: ta.ngo</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div class="mixmax_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div><img align="left" width="0" height="0" style="border:0;width:0px;height:0px" src="https://track.mixmax.com/api/track/v2/r1xuW5dsMA0oPERvp/ISbvNmLslWYtdGQplGZhJmLoVmbhpnchZmI/gI1RWZuIXez5idyV2c0NXasB0czV3YzlGZtc2cj5mI/ICdzlGTgc0UD5kI?sc=false" alt=""> <!--[if mso]></td></tr></table><![endif]--> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>