[Upd-discuss] .upd or .gnu top level domains

[James Love]

Soon ICANN will be issuing new top level domains (tld).   So far most of
the action has been for various commerical domains, such as .web, .inc,
.flowers, or whatever.

We are proposing a .customers tld, that would be used for consumers or
organize (such as for .aetnaushc.customers, dell.customers, etc as one
type of non-commerical domain.

We are proposing .sucks as a second one, that would be non-profit, but
require a fee (like $10) that would fund a foundation to protect free
speech on the Internet.  

We are working with unions to propose .union, to help "the workers of
the world organize."  (i.e., nike.union, boeing.union, microsoft.union,
etc).

Maybe it would be cool for propose .upd or .gnu.  The domain could be
managed by any number of firms on contract, but the policy could be
things like, only use open publishing standards, or contributions for
registration to support groups that protect the public domain in
intellectual property.

Jamie

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