ICANN opened a public comment period on a proposed amendment from Telnic Ltd. to Appendices 6 and 7 of the.TEL Registry Agreement.
On 11 August 2010, ICANN posted for public information a request submitted by Telnic through the Registry Services Evaluation Process to allow one and two-character ASCII .TEL domain names. The Telnic proposal is available here.
As provided for by existing consensus policy, ICANN has undertaken a preliminary determination on whether the proposal might raise significant competition, security or stability issues.ICANN's determination is that the proposal does not raise such issues in .TEL.
Implementation of the proposal would require an amendment to Appendices 6 and 7 of the .TEL Registry Agreement. A copy of the proposed amendment is available here .
Comments on the proposed amendment submitted totel-one-and-two-char-domains@icann.orgwill be considered until 10 Nov 2010 23:59 UTC. Comments may be viewed here .