Fwd: OBJECTION to TLD Suggestion/Request--.music

[Joe Baptista]

FYI

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From: Joe Baptista <bapt...@publicroot.org>
Date: Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Subject: OBJECTION to TLD Suggestion/Request--.music
To: dis...@lists.opennicproject.org


The TLD .music is taken - don't know it's status. You should contact the administrator. See if he would mind listing it on the opennic.

TLD Registrant:
     Name: Jason Hendeles
     Company name: Icm Registry

     Address: 23 McKayfield Road
     City: Toronto
     State: Ontario
     Zip: M4J 4P6
     Country: Canada
     Phone: +1.888.282.6972
     Cell phone: 
     Fax: +1.416.485.6195
     Email: ja...@iy.com

The claim is valid - this is a legacy alt root TLD. No fraud that I can tell. They are the same people who operate .XXX and have been suing ICANN. So if you guys are serious about this one I suggest you contact Jason Hendeles or whoever is running Icm these days.

Incidentally this claim dates back to 1996 and is found in the Postel document of claims made to IANA. The TLD was originally claimed back then by Christopher Ambler another legacy alt root zone person.

Both Hendeles and Ambler are ORSC. The ORSC also recognizes Hendeles as the operator.

My recommendation is call Hendeles and find out what is happening with the TLD. Recommended procedure RFC 1591.

cheers
joe baptista

p.s. There will also be an ICANN new gTLD application for this TLD. This is another consideration - if an application to ICANN is made by a third party unrelated to the .MUSIC administrator here - will the administrator of this TLD do his best to defend it before ICANN?

I've asked this question before. Never got an answer.

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Alex Buie <ajb...@nd-computerservices.com> wrote:

I want to open a new TLD, .music. The purpose of this TLD would be to provide sites for musicians who want to showcase their works, or possibly for fansites of musicians.


Alex

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[Hugh Dierker]

Joe,
ICannt is really that blatantly ignoring reality?

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