[wg-c] Re: Suggestions

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

I think we have rough consensus (more or less) on 2 items:

- Of the 6-10 new TLDs, at least one must be chartered, to give us experience
   with how a chartered TLD behaves.
- Of the 6-10 new TLDs, at least one must be open, to verify the theories of
   "a new land rush" that a lot of our members hold.

I'd like to draw your attention to a limit type that's not been discussed 
so far, but will be tried in Norway (.no) soon:
That any attempt to register a domain in a specific TLD has to be sent on 
behalf of an identifiable legal subject (in Norway, a company identified by 
a company ID; other possibilities are credit card numbers or other 
interesting numbers that are relatively easy to come by), and that the 
number of domains available to each identity is limited (in Norway, a limit 
of 15 is suggested).

The purposes behind this is to at least limit the size of the initial 
"rush", and to make large-scale cybersquatting a *little* more difficult.

Just an idea.....

                        Harald


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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no