US Dept Of Commerce: Us Govt Doesn’t Agree With Postal Service Objections To .Mail

Posted on April 4, 2013

In a letter sent to ICANN by The US Commerce Department’s Lawrence Strickling to Steve Crocker, Commerce made it clear that the US Government was not backing the United States Postal Service (USPS) objections to the new gTLD applications for .Mail

Last week we told you that the USPS filed a Legal Rights Objection with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against all seven applications for  the new gTLD  .Mail.

The applicants for the new gTLD .Mail include Google, Amazon, and Donuts, Afilias and  1&1 Mail & Media GmbH,  which owns 1 & 1 hosting which is also a domain name registrar and also owns the domain name Mail.com and Web.de

In the letter Mr. Strickling says the objections are “not supported by the coordinated view of the United States Government.”

So the USPS is out on their own on this one.

 

 

9 thoughts on “US Dept Of Commerce: Us Govt Doesn’t Agree With Postal Service Objections To .Mail”

  1. Any present company accepted -…..
    Lawyers and Lawyers and Lawyers and Lawyers and Lawyers….

    If any reasonable person looks at all this new tld stuff – its a pretty strong message of antitrust – of course over something that is a complete façade – but its all about registry sales – and lots of registry domains sales for domains that will never be used – just sold – some a few times over 🙂

  3. The more I read stories like this, the less I care. If in the grand scheme of things this really mattered, it would be important. But it isn’t.

    I’ll stick with the tried and true, and ignore the whole gTLD fiasco from now on. It’s all hype without substance, or as Shakespeare would more poetically write, “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

    I’ll take my ‘grumpy hat’ off, now.

  4. Lawrence Strickling is Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information at the Department of Commerce. Chief Tech Guru, it looks like. Why would he care what the Postal Service objects to? It is strange to me that he would concern himself with this at all.

    It does seem to show that the Commerce Dept will let this gTLD program happen without interference.

  5. Well the US is a member of the Government Advisory Council (GAC) who has the right to object to strings and applications.

    I think they are just letting it be known that the US is not going to object to .mail just because the USPS did.

  6. Not so fast…
    from the letter:
    ” the USG will present its coordinated views to the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) as it forms its consensus advice to the Board on these matters.”

  7. Hello MHB,

    There is far too much Bribe Money already let out for this not to happen, gTLDs are coming.

    Take Heart .COM Holders !

    With the advent of the new gTLDS being introduced, its effect will severely impact the Search Engine Marketing Sector. According to MIT (Mass. Inst.Tech.) type-In traffic will be expanded rapidly and will be common place. Consumers are very reluctant to change and there are studies to prove that they will avoid doing business on a non-.COM site. This splintering and dividing of the Search Engine Market bodes well for a brilliant future, for Pure Play Generic .COM Profit Centers. M I T foresees Type-Ins, We foresee a seachange shift into .COM Profit Centers.

    Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)

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