.FAM Top Level Domain
is a company primarily aiming at the promotion and
operation of this new gTLD. We are currently in
the process of formulating our business, marketing
and financial plan and seeking for the necessary
support (partners, bancs, government). The next
step will be evaluating and eventually establishing
the nessecary infrastructure to ensure the stable
operation of a possible registry. Our present
business location is at Tiefendorfergasse 7 /3,
1140 Vienna, Austria.
Currently there is no TLD, that
"really fits" for private users, the ccTLD are
useable, but in many cases they are already
registered (by commercial units). A lot of
users are not merely interested in an isolated
webpage on their very own account, but would
prefer a network similar to the real live´s
"smallest cell of society", the family. The
above mentioned possibility of utilising a
ccTLD as well does not regard the fact, that
many families do spread over various countries.
The .FAM gTLD should, according
to our research, give individual families and
their members the possibility to utilise the
Internet for personal use.
In addition, selected organisations and companies,
which offer special services or goods for families
(e.g. genealogy or family search) could be accepted
as registrants. Therefore the gTLD should be of the
restricted type ("chartered") to the above mentioned
classes of users.
This could eventually lead to a
whole new network of family related websites, where
people could be enabled to find their relatives
scattered over the whole planet and link them
together closely. Or there might be for example
an Internet Portal "www.Government.fam", which
provides links to local family related governmental
services and agencies.
An additional asset of the proposed
.FAM gTLD is, that its meaning "family" is not only
obvious for the english language, but for most
western languages (e.g. danish, dutch, english,
french, german, italian, norwegian, polish,
portugues spanish, swedish, also africaans and
various other european languages). This includes
all users in both north and south america, western
europe, australia and new zealand with their mother
tounge, great parts of africa, where either english
or french is the lingua franca in countries, that
have any number between 5 and 500 different languages.
In the other parts of the world, english is of course
accepted as business and internet language.
The intended Domain Name Policies
could, in brief, be outlined as follows:
Registrants
could be devided into two groups:
· individuals applying for
family names:
Any person, who finds his/her family name
allready taken, could activate a hyperlink
in the ".FAM Web Directory".
· Anyone applying for another
second level domain name under the .FAM TLD than
his/her family name.
If the SLD implies global relevance, the registrant
needs to prove his/her global interest in the SLD
(eg. "www.government.fam" should not be registered
by a single national or regional government agency,
but rather by someone who provides world wide
information about family related government agencies).
The ".FAM Web Directory" would be
a Database extension to the Domain Name Service.
Everyone would be allowed and enabled to enter one
hyperlink to his/her family homepage under a certain,
already taken Family Domain Name. This would eventually
allow families to locate relatives.
