.health
| Status: | Proposed |
| Registry: | GoDaddy |
| Registry Backend: | GoDaddy |
| Category: | Health |
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.health is a proposed generic top level domain name (gTLD) in ICANN's New gTLD Program.
Applicants
- DotHealth, LLC
- Afilias, is a registry operator which also applied for TLDs on its own behalf.[1][2]
- Famous Four Media (dot Health Limited), Geir Rasmussen is the contact person for the company, which has applied for 61 TLDs.[3][4]
- Donuts (Goose Fest LLC), one of 307 applications submitted by the company. [5]
GAC Early Warnings
Applicants for .health, were subject to a number of GAC Early Warnings.The warning system is noted as a strong recommendation on behalf of national governments to the ICANN Board that a given TLD application should be denied as it stands. Applicants are encouraged to work with objecting GAC members.[6]
France and Mali both objected to all four applications; France claims that the demands for legitimacy with regards to health services around the world prevents .health from being an easily deployable TLD, and that all applicants need greater security measures, they further note that: " We also refer to the requests from the World Health Organization NGOs, and others, who wrote to ICANN and the GAC to delay the attribution of the string to allow for consultation with the global health community on operating the TLD in the Public Interest."[7] Mali makes similar claims, and Cameroon also submitted an Early Warning to Afilias .health application, copying the French warning verbatim.[8]
European Commission Objection
The European Commission objected to all applicants for .health outside of ICANN's defined remediation processes.
Just after ICANN's GAC issued its Early Warnings, which are advice given from one GAC member country to an applicant warning it of potential issues within its application, the European Commission issued a letter to all applicants within the new gTLD program. The letter highlights 58 applications that "could raise issues of compatibility with the existing legislation .. and/or with policy positions and objectives of the European Union." It notes a desire to open a dialogue with each offending applicant.
The Commission specifically notes that this objection is not a part of the GAC Early Warning process, and goes on to note that "the Commission does not consider itself legally bound to [ICANN] processes," given that there is not legal agreement between the two bodies.[9][10]
References
- ↑ Reveal Day 13 June 2012 – New gTLD Applied-For Strings
- ↑ Afilias Bringing Hundreds of New Top-Level Domains to the Internet
- ↑ Famous Four Media Applies, TheDomains.com
- ↑ Reveal Day 13 June 2012 – New gTLD Applied-For Strings
- ↑ Reveal Day 13 June 2012 – New gTLD Applied-For Strings
- ↑ GAC Early Warning, NewgTLDS.ICANN.org Retrieved 25 Nov 2012
- ↑ Health FR, GACweb.ICANN.org
- ↑ Health CM, GACWeb.ICANN.org
- ↑ DomainIncite.com/Docs Published 27 Nov 2012, Retrieved 11 Dec 2012
- ↑ Europe Rejects ICANNs Authority As it Warns of Problems with 58 New gTLDs, DomainIncite.com Published 27 Nov 2012, Retrieved 11 Dec 2012