The International Amateur Radio Union supports the European Broadcast Union’s...
The International Amateur Radio Union supports the European Broadcast Union’s application for the generic top-level domain .radio, said IARU President Timothy Ellam in a letter to ICANN. “The IARU believes that the dot-radio proposal to be submitted by the EBU…
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could provide an unique opportunity to standardize Radio domain names on the Internet,” Ellam wrote (http://bit.ly/QChM4j). “The use of a specific global online name such as dot-radio can help create a unique space worldwide, a place where the global radio community can gather.” In a statement announcing its plan to apply in March (http://xrl.us/bnkt87), EBU Director General Ingrid Deltenre said “the EBU wants to ensure that the world’s radio community has fair, reasonable access to a domain name that could bring unique impetus to the entire sector. The EBU would administer the .radio TLD in a neutral, reliable and not-for-profit way; it would be regrettable if it fell into hands that do not represent the entire radio community.” According to ICANN’s application results (http://xrl.us/bnbnyj), three other entities have applied for the .radio domain name. ICANN has extended until Sept. 26 the deadline for public comment on the nearly 2,000 applications for gTLDs it received earlier this year.