[NCSG-PC] O.com comment

[Ayden Férdeline]

Hi,

Is this comment coming together, or should I draft one? I note the deadline is in two days time...

Thanks,

Ayden

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On 10 June 2018 2:31 AM, Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ayden,
>
> thanks for raising this. it is quite an old issue and need to ask those who were involved before 2007. On another hand, I think the similar issue is the 2-letters characters and it is something that Farzaneh worked on and followed closely. she may give us some guidance here.
> for auctions, I don't think they are not intended to be for ICANN but for non-profit organisations serving internet community (likely separate from ICANN). the idea is worthy to be explored but my concern is that will encourage ICANN to leave more of its responsibility and count on these uncertain auctions to fund community activities.
>
> I think 0.com is still reserved as in the same process that reserved other 1 character like o.com, so the security risk may raise later if 0.com is requested to be removed from the reserved list.
>
> for NCSG draft comment, I think Bruna will submit one by this Monday.
>
> Best,
>
> Rafik
>
> Le dim. 10 juin 2018 à 06:10, Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com> a écrit :
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> So I have been reading up on the allocation of single character gTLDs vis-a-vis [this comment](https://www.icann.org/public-comments/o-com-single-char-2018-05-10-en) on the potential release of O.com. This issue has been brewing for some time, however I was wondering if the NCSG/NCUC/predecessor had released a comment on this issue. I could find a personal [comment from Avri](https://forum.icann.org/lists/allocationmethods/msg00007.html) back in 2007 but not quite anything from us. Did we ever comment on this?
>>
>> Also, I was wondering our thoughts on where the money from the sale of O.com (and potentially other single character .coms) should go. I am opposed to this money going into the new gTLD Auction Proceeds fund, an idea I have seen floated around. I don't want to create a big burdensome programme here but I do think we should spend the funds on the ICANN community. CROP and ABRs are being cut, so perhaps these funds could be put aside to advance and sustain these community programmes in the future.
>>
>> Finally, could someone reasonably confuse O.com (letter 'o') with 0.com (number zero)? I think they could...
>>
>> Ayden
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