.CA domains going IDN? Round Two in January

[yanni]

CIRA received a tremendous amount of feedback in the first round of its public consultation
on the planned launch of French character Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs).
Over the last few months, we received approximately 350 comments on the online forum
and more than 50 formal submissions.
The first round of the consultation is now closed. CIRA will receive a report summarizing
the feedback received in late December, which will inform revisions to the IDN policy.
The public will get a chance to have a say on the revised policy during the second round
of the consultation set for January.



More here (http://dotcadomains.blogspot.com/2012/01/ca-domains-going-idn-round-two-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Domainreportca+%28DomainReport.ca%29):


and here: (http://www.idnconsultation.ca/community/en/)

[DktoInc]

More here (http://dotcadomains.blogspot.com/2012/01/ca-domains-going-idn-round-two-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Domainreportca+%28DomainReport.ca%29):


and here: (http://www.idnconsultation.ca/community/en/)

All they have to do is repeat what .de or .ee did with introduction of accents in domain names. beer anyone?

[blastfromthepast]

What about Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics?

[DktoInc]

What about Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics?

no keyboards.

[squirrel]

And not official language

[Kent99]

Wonder if CIRA will reserve the top 1000 names for themselves and leave the crumbs for the plebs

[Wot]

Wonder if CIRA will reserve the top 1000 names for themselves and leave the crumbs for the plebs

Are there 1000 top names with French accents?

[squirrel]

ASCII owners will get the first kick at the can anyways

[DktoInc]

http://www.idnconsultation.ca/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/1011-102-4-1038/IDN_Policy_Interactive-19-09-11.pdf

Does the proposed Sunrise period unfairly favour existing Registrants over trademark owners? Should trademark owners be provided further rights protection? An alternative Sunrise process could include trademark owners. For example:


In addition to existing .CA Registrants as described in the Sunrise process, owners of registered Canadian trademarks containing French characters would also be provided the opportunity to apply for the registration of their exact trademark during the Sunrise period (e.g. the right to the domain name grâce.ca would be reserved, during the Sunrise period, for the owner of the trademark Grâce).
Validation of all trademark applications would be required.
Conflicting requests (where there is more than one potential Registrant with the same trademark, or where an existing .CA domain name and a registered trademark owner both apply to register the same IDN domain name) would be resolved through random selection.

[blastfromthepast]

But do they have the droit?