Two-Character Letter/Letter Label Comments and Mitigation Measures
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| TLD | Two Characters | Comments from Government | Last updated | RO Mitigation Plan | RO Name | BRAND TLD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| total | mx | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| watches | mx | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| wtc | mx | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| xn--flw351e | mx | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| xn--kpu716f | mx | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| xn--pbt977c | mx | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| xn--qcka1pmc | mx | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| zip | mx | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| able | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| boo | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| bostik | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| cal | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| cam | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| cbs | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| channel | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| chintai | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| dad | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| day | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| dclk | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| dev | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| doctor | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| eat | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| eco | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| esq | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| fly | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| fujixerox | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| games | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| gbiz | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| gdn | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| gle | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| guge | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| hangout | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| ikano | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| jcp | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| map | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| meme | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| mov | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| new | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| phd | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| prod | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| prof | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| quebec | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| rsvp | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| search | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| sfr | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| showtime | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| total | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| watches | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| wtc | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| xn--flw351e | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| xn--kpu716f | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| xn--pbt977c | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| xn--qcka1pmc | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| zip | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| able | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| boo | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| bostik | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| cal | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| cam | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| cbs | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| channel | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| chintai | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| dad | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| day | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| dclk | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| dev | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| doctor | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| eat | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| eco | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| esq | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| fly | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| fujixerox | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| games | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| gbiz | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| gdn | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| gle | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| guge | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| hangout | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| ikano | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| jcp | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| map | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| meme | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| mov | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| new | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| phd | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| prod | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| prof | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| quebec | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| rsvp | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| search | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| sfr | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| showtime | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| total | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| watches | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| wtc | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| xn--flw351e | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| xn--kpu716f | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| xn--pbt977c | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No | ||
| xn--qcka1pmc | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | Yes | ||
| zip | ir | View Comments 2016-08-17 | 2016-08-17 | No |
mx Comments
By Miguel Ángel Muñoz Petrichole, Deputy Director of International Affairs Telecommunications, Secretariat of Communications and Transport
Comments of the Mexican Administrations to the document “Proposed Measures for Letter/Letter Two-Character ASCII Labels to Avoid Confusion with Corresponding Country Codes.”
Mexico considers that the proposed measures are not enough to avoid confusion with corresponding country codes. In contrast, we believe that the release of country codes in the Second Level Domain (SLD) could destabilize the domain name system.
Regarding the proposed measures, Mexico considers the following:
• To maintain the exclusivity of a country code for a 30-day period in favor of the related government does not necessarily contributes to consumer choice or competitiveness. Besides, it could produce additional costs to governments or country code managers who wish to obtain a country code under a new gTLD.
• Likewise, it will require additional efforts and resources to review each new policy that every new gTLD operator publishes.
Mexico considers that the protection of the country codes in the ISO-3166 list should not be released. Having the offer to register a country code as a SLD would foster combinations of domain name registrations in the third level of new gTLDs. This does not contribute to the objective of this round for new gTLDs, in which it sought to increase the available options only at the root level, taking into account that other options of registration already were available and covered by other top level domains (TLDs).
It is worth noting that the initial conception of the DNS, sought to foster the registration of new domain names with a specific orientation of diverse nature: some community-territorial, some other with technical or network orientation, military, commercial, among others*, and the new gTLDs were equally conceived in this sense.
Based on the principle of parsimony, which implicates that entities should not multiple needlessly and should use the available resources; given the existence of ccTLD, which purpose is the identification of a country or community, there would be no need to have it in the SLD under new gTLDs.
*See Postel, J. (1994). RFC1591, available on: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1591.txt , among other reference documents.
ir Comments
By Alireza Saleh, Director .ir ccTLD, ccTLD registry of .ir
.ir ccTLD, would like to express its concern about the likelihood of confusion between "ir" and the corresponding ccTLD. .ir ccTLD, hereby, asks the related authorities to inform us of any request including "ir" in order to concluding an explicit agreement with the related Registry Operator.
ir Comments
By H.S.Shahhoseini, Advisor of Information Technology Organization of Iran, International Office
Please find following comment which is official statement of Iran ICT Deputy Minister and Head of Information Technology Organization of Iran. Also similar letter has been sent to GAC Secretariat by email.
Dear GAC Secretariat
Re: Requests for Release of Two-Letter Second-Level Domains in gTLDs
As Islamic Republic of IRAN GAC Representative, I would like to express our concerns about the likelihood of confusion between "ir" and the corresponding ccTLD. We, hereby, ask the related authorities to inform us of any request including "ir" and other possibly two character labels which are similar to "ir" in order to concluding an explicit agreement with us for releasing Two-Letter Second-Level Domains in gTLDs.
So again we categorically reject any such release unless our explicit agreement is obtained.
Sincerely yours,
Nasrollah Jahangard
I.R. Iran GAC Representative
Deputy Minister of ICT and
Head of Information Technology Organization of Iran