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New domainsICANN has approved the creation of 2 new
top level domains: .jobs and .travel.
You can find the short announcement here.
The operators will be Employ Media and Tralliance Corporation. According to the executive summary, here , .jobs will be the place to register your company's name to advertise your human resources needs, but you will have to be, or have on your staff, a member of The Society for Human Resource Management. According to the executive summary, here , .travel will be "fully open to bona fide travel trade industry associations, organisations or entities" - these appear to include hotels and restaurants as well as airlines and tourist related things. So qantas.travel, flightcentre.travel, hiltonhotels.travel, avis.travel? One might be sceptical, in an era where Google is both a brand name (well maybe) and a verb, that people will search specific domains, but there you go. What are you going to have to do? Well, consider whether you or your clients need (well, desperately want) to register a name in these new spaces (presumably, you won't need to register in .travel!). Do you or your clients even qualify to register in one or both? Each has its own "eligibility" criteria. According to section B of "Policy-Making Process", here (and scroll down), Employ Media for example will limit registrations to persons who can show that the domain name is the same as, or derived from, their formal legal name or other name by which they are commonly known. It is also considering implementing either a two or three stage start up process. The first stage will limit registrations to Qualified Applicants who would be the registrants with "the most significant impact on the Community"??? Disputes between simultaneous applicants in the start up period might be resolved according to formal legal name takes priority over non-legal common name .... .travel, in contrast, will have a "start up" faze and a "go live" faze. Secondly, work out how you or your clients are going to deal with any "abusive" registrations. After two or three stage start up process for .jobs, it will be the UDRP. .travel looks like it will have the UDRP and a Charter Eligibility Dispute Resolution Policy and will supplement both with its own informal review process. Section A of the Policy-Making Process envisages community members taking part in making the actual policies - so there's a third level of potential action for you or your clients: participation in designing what the rules actually are! Posted: Tuesday - 12 April, 2005 at 01:02 PM | |