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Three companies have applied to run registries of a new TLD called .Mobile. A .Mobile extension would easily be confused with .Mobi and if sold to the public would serve the same market. The controlling agency, ICANN, is accepting comments through September 26 (extended from August 12, can someone fix the thread title?).
To post a comment to the review panel:
Go to: https://gtldcomment.icann.org/comments-feedback/applicationcomment/makeacomment
Set up an account. Password must be at least 8 char and include numbers and caps. Click the link in your email within 5 hours. You can change your profile later.
You can comment many times
To comment - log in. The same page shows but scroll down to the comment form that now displays.
In the first box select which applicant you want to object to. For .Mobile they are:
Pixie North, LLC
Dish DBS Corporation -- Select the eighth listing of the 13 Dishes.
Amazon EU S.à r.l. -- Select the second listing of the 4 Amazons.
The second box is now active, click .mobile. If .Mobile does not show (scroll) try another alternative in the first box. This box goes dead when you are slow to finish, reset the first box to fix it.
The third box "Panel/Objection Ground" is important. There are many committees and outside agencies in the review process, if your objection goes to a non-relevant panel it dies. I posted in two categories - Evaluation Panel/String Similarity and Objection Ground/Community. Here is my reasoning:
The String Similarity Evaluation Panel looks at VISUAL similarity. This is an automatic review by an outside judge, .Mobile vs .Mobi is one of the most likely to fail. Public comments are sent officially to the panel.
The Community Objection Ground - The Independent Objector is tasked to file objections on the basis of harm to a community. Mobi domain owners would be harmed by .Mobile. The rules do not allow him to object on string similarity directly. There must be at least one comment from the public on a specific applicant and domain for him to act.
Note that you have to make a separate objection for each applicant/domain set.
Relevant, short, polite, informed comments are preferred.
Pixie North (Donuts) is the only .Mobile applicant that plans to sell domains to the public. Other applications you might object to, among others, are .Mobily .Phone .App.
Public portions of all new TLD applications are here:
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en
Comment period has been extended to September 26, the anniversary of .Mobi release, by coincidence.
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To post a comment to the review panel:
Go to: https://gtldcomment.icann.org/comments-feedback/applicationcomment/makeacomment
Set up an account. Password must be at least 8 char and include numbers and caps. Click the link in your email within 5 hours. You can change your profile later.
You can comment many times
To comment - log in. The same page shows but scroll down to the comment form that now displays.
In the first box select which applicant you want to object to. For .Mobile they are:
Pixie North, LLC
Dish DBS Corporation -- Select the eighth listing of the 13 Dishes.
Amazon EU S.à r.l. -- Select the second listing of the 4 Amazons.
The second box is now active, click .mobile. If .Mobile does not show (scroll) try another alternative in the first box. This box goes dead when you are slow to finish, reset the first box to fix it.
The third box "Panel/Objection Ground" is important. There are many committees and outside agencies in the review process, if your objection goes to a non-relevant panel it dies. I posted in two categories - Evaluation Panel/String Similarity and Objection Ground/Community. Here is my reasoning:
The String Similarity Evaluation Panel looks at VISUAL similarity. This is an automatic review by an outside judge, .Mobile vs .Mobi is one of the most likely to fail. Public comments are sent officially to the panel.
The Community Objection Ground - The Independent Objector is tasked to file objections on the basis of harm to a community. Mobi domain owners would be harmed by .Mobile. The rules do not allow him to object on string similarity directly. There must be at least one comment from the public on a specific applicant and domain for him to act.
Note that you have to make a separate objection for each applicant/domain set.
Relevant, short, polite, informed comments are preferred.
Pixie North (Donuts) is the only .Mobile applicant that plans to sell domains to the public. Other applications you might object to, among others, are .Mobily .Phone .App.
Public portions of all new TLD applications are here:
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en
Comment period has been extended to September 26, the anniversary of .Mobi release, by coincidence.
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