"The TLDs .corp, .home, and .mail be referred to the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF) for potential RFC 1918-like protection/treatment."
Unfortunately, the IETF decided agains this treatment, so those strings remain
"deferred indefinitely."
I think it would be fairer to say we didn't decide to do anything. It
didn't help that one of the louder voices in the discussion was am
applicant for .HOME lobbying to keep his application alive, and lobbying
and consensus work poorly together.
If we're thinking about closing the 6761 registry, it could make sense to
revisit the question. It's somewhat complicated because (as far as I can
see) .home and .mail are likely to collide forever, but now that CAs have
stopped signing .corp certificates, its usage might decline.
but along with the four remaining applications for MAIL, there are 5 for CORP
and 10 for HOME, and they haven't given back the $3.5 million in application
fees, either.
I might be wrong, but I believe that is because the applicants have, to date,
refused to terminate their applications for those strings. Hard to give back
money if people refuse to accept it, no?
If I were an applicant, I would note that if I withdraw voluntarily at
this point, I get 20% of my money back and ICANN keeps 80%. Since we now
know none of the applications for those three names could have been
successful, I'd want 100% back. Or I might figure that at this point, the
incremental cost of waiting to see what happens to .corp is pretty low.
R's,
John
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