Mark, RTFDAG. Regards, -drc On Jun 19, 2011, at 7:14 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
In order to obtain a gTLD, you have to sign a contractual agreement with = ICANN.
David, you are missing the point. The TM holder doesn't want the gtld, they just want to protect their trademark. The TM holder doesn't have a contract with ICANN. They do however have a legitimate right to the name and want to spend $0 keeping the name out of anybodys hands but theirs. $187K is not longer a amount to be sneezed at.
Mark
Also rfp-clean-30may11-en.pdf basically deals with <tm>.<gtld>.
You might want to re-read pretty much any part of that document (e.g., = the title).
Regards, -drc -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org