NCDNHC

RESOLUTION #4

ICANN-NCDNHC, Nov 13^th, 2000

Resolution on new top-level domain applications

The non-commercial constituency of the DNSO supports the following policy criteria as guides to the selection of new top-level domains:

Whereas:

ICANN's mandate is primarily technical coordination, and
The 44 applications before ICANN propose a broad variety of policies and business models, all of which may offer valuable experience for the testbed period, and
Diversity of service and additional choices for users are the primary objective of adding new top-level domains,

Resolved, that the non-commercial constituency urges ICANN to:

1. Accept all technically and operationally sound applications for top-level domain names if there are no other applications for the same name;

2. When there are mutually exclusive applications for the same top-level domain name, use the following rules to resolve conflicts:

Select the applicant organization that designates a registry which is not already a registry for top-level domains in the ICANN-administered root; and
Avoid giving contested top-level domains in the first round to organizations or consortiums that represent more than 40% market share of the existing market for registry or registrar services in the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains.

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