A Kurdish company is proposing to apply for the .KURD or .KUR generic
Top Level Domain to represent the 35 million Kurdish people around the
world when ICANN begins to take applications for new gTLDs, according to
a report in Domain Incite.
Of those 35 million Kurdish people, a large number live in Iran and
Iraq, while there are also 14 million Kurdish people in Turkey.
The proposal is being driven by Aras Noori, a German resident. Noori
wrote to ICANN's CEO and president Rod Beckstrom in April 2010 advising
of the launch of the proposal to apply for either .KURD or .KUR - the
Kurdish community, according to Noori, has not yet decided on which gTLD
to apply for.
In his letter Noori notes "a domain extension for the Kurdish people has
been a dream of many communities like ZKURD , KurdITgroup , KOSC and
others. We, with support of many Kurdish groups and communities are
committed in making a domain extension available for Kurd people."
More information on the proposal is available from dotkurd.org/en.
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