.thai
| Status: | Proposed |
| Type: | Community |
| Category: | Culture |
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.thai is a proposed TLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program. The applicant is Better Living Management Company Limited.[1]
The Thai Network Information Center Foundation (THNIC), which runs the ccTLD .th, filed an objection against Better Living Management Company's application for .thai. Its objects on the following three grounds:
- Better Living Management Company claims in their application to plan to work with THNIC, however THNIC says that no such agreement was made, and that it would not agree to such in the future, as BLM is for-profit and THNIC is non-profit.
- "Thai" is a transliteration of Thailand's IDN ccTLD, .ไทย, and the two strings would be pronounced the same by a Thai reader, thus causing string similarity confusion.
- "Thai" is also commonly used by locals as a way to reference the country of Thailand.[2]