Fwd: No '.union' top level domain, says ICANN

[Leo Casey]

> Date: 17 Nov 2000 07:51:48 -0000
> To: List Member <LeoCasey at aol.com>
> From: LabourStart <ericlee at labourstart.org>
> Subject: No '.union' top level domain, says ICANN
> 
> LabourStart - http://www.labourstart.org
> 
> Breaking news
> -------------
> 
> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
> Numbers (ICANN) met this
> week to discuss applications for new domain names
> (in addition to the
> existing .com, .org and so on).  A consortium of
> international trade
> unions headed by the Brussels-based International
> Confederation of Free
> Trade Unions proposed a '.union' top level domain
> which they would
> administer -- a kind of global cyber union label. 
> Yesterday, ICANN's
> board voted unanimously to reject the union proposal
> even though an
> earlier ICANN report had recommended it.  The
> '.union' proposal received
> overwhelming support in messages sent to ICANN and
> over 70% of voters in a
> LabourStart poll indicated their support for the
> proposal as well.  The
> global union consortium paid a non-refundable fee of
> $50,000 for the
> privilege of having ICANN consider -- and reject --
> their proposal.
> 
> There is full coverage of the ICANN decision on the
> front page of
> LabourStart today.  In addition, you might wish to
> read some of the
> following:
> 
> http://www.labourstart.org/icann/ericleebook.shtml -
> Eric Lee's book, "The
> Internet Belongs to Everyone", with its chapter on
> the '.union' top level
> domain proposal.

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