Current Policy Issues Regarding Three-Character Country Codes as Top-Level Domains
The GAC Agenda Item 10 discusses the possibility of using three-character country codes as top-level domains in the future rounds, addressing concerns of potential confusion with existing ccTLDs. The joint ccNSO and GNSO working group is exploring lifting restrictions on three-letter codes, with the GAC highlighting the strong association of these codes with countries and territories. The debate involves the Strawman proposal at ICANN 55 Marrakech and the prepared response by the GAC Geonames WG to maintain current protections. GAC options involve reviewing and commenting on responses, posing questions at ICANN56, and engaging more members in the CWG-UCTN activities.
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GAC Agenda Item 10: Three-Character Country Codes as Top-Level Domains in Future Rounds
Two different issues ref. country codes THIS SESSION! Three-character country codes at the top-level in future rounds e.g. domainname.CCC Policy Development Process (PDP) First round forbade country names or codes at top-level | 2
Background The joint ccNSO and GNSO working group on use of country and territory names at top level domains (CWG-UCTN) is looking at the possibility of lifting the current restrictions on 3-letter codes as well as country names. They sent out a questionnaire on Sept. 2015 > The GAC provided its initial input on Dec. 2015. Questions covered all 3-character combinations, in ASCII and IDN characters. On ISO 3-letter codes, the GAC noted their strong association with countries and territories > High risk of confusion with ccTLDs. Significant support for maintaining current protections. Less than 2% (300) of the 3-character ASCII letter-letter-letter combinations (17,576) are country codes (ISO 3166-1 Alpha-3). | 3
What is the issue? The CWG-UCTN released straw woman paper at ICANN 55 Marrakech = possible policy approach to make three-character ISO-3166-1 alpha-3 country codes eligible as gTLDs in future. GAC Geonames WG has prepared a reasoned response to the straw woman proposal to uphold current protections. The response is submitted to the GAC for endorsement following Guidelines for GAC WGs. | 4
GAC options - Country and territory names as SLDs 1) Review and comment on the proposed response put forward by the GAC WG on geonames to the straw man paper and submit to the CCWG-UTCN. 2) Pose questions to the CWG-UCTN Co-Chairs at ICANN56 in Helsinki. Cross Community session: country and other geographic names Forum (Wednesday 15:15 h.) 3) Additional GAC members could engage in the activities of the CWG-UCTN. | 5
Thank you ! Questions? Ideas? | 6
