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Last chance to tell ICANN how to plug new gTLDs

Kevin Murphy, July 14, 2011, 12:31:50 (UTC), Domain Registries

“How Do We Raise Global Awareness of New gTLDs?”
ICANN asked that question a month ago and tomorrow is your last chance to respond to the public comment period it set up to gather suggestions.
So far, the number of responses is in the single figures.
I quite like Danny Younger’s suggestion: “It might be wise for a communications plan to include a warning to the general public about misleading ‘pre-registration’ schemes.”
A press release containing such a warning would almost certainly gather headlines – hacks love a bit of conflict – but it could also risk making the new gTLD process look a bit slapdash.
Easily the most laughable suggestion filed with ICANN so far comes from 4U Systems:

I would like to offer the use of .4U.com in your campaign. For example, New-gTLDs.4U.com, Domains.4U.com,Internet-Innovations.4U.com, new-domains.4U.com, Internet-expansions.4U.com, ICANN-applications.4U.com, TLD-launch.4U.com, ICANN-facts.4U.com, podcasts.4U.com, social-media.4U.com…the possibilities are limitless… the avenues to the information, countless. Therefore, we would like to talk further about how we may assist in the gTLD campaign with 4U.

Has any reader ever encountered a more fundamentally badly judged or desperation-smacking piece of business development outreach?

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Comments (1)

  1. TAG says:

    Maybe they should start by answering emails from people asking how they can help at no cost :).
    Or, maybe try budgeting a reasonable amount for ‘Global Awareness’.

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