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A comment on An Open Letter to ICANN on the TLD.js Movement.

Re:An Open Letter to ICANN on the TLD.js Movement by kijin on Friday May 25, 2012 @08:40PM (#4025996)
ICANN is already accepting applications for whatever TLD you want to create. You don't have to be a country to get one. So what's the point of this "petition"?

I'm guessing that the goal is somehow to bypass the hefty fees that ICANN charges on anyone who applies for a new TLD. If so, why not just say that that's the objective, and skip the nonsense about JavaScript being a nation with billions of lines of virtual GDP?

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Re:An Open Letter to ICANN on the TLD.js Movement by lloydhilaiel on Friday May 25, 2012 @08:44PM (#4026001)
"Two-character ASCII strings are not permitted, to avoid conflicting with current and future country codes based on the ISO 3166-1 standard."

See https://github.com/ozten/TLD.js/issues/8

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Re:An Open Letter to ICANN on the TLD.js Movement by kijin on Friday May 25, 2012 @08:54PM (#4026022)
Ah, I see. I wish they made this clear in the landing page.
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