hs-names

> Because in some cases, that is the rule. See Rule #5 https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-names How does the rule in any shape or form contradict what I have stated? It says: "The domain must not collide with a higher-ranked domain. For example, google.co.uk would lose to google.com. Only the owner of the higher-ranked domain is able to redeem it" Point is that many developers invested a lot of time and effort into establishing rules for reservation to maximize fairness, so when a domain is not reserved my statement above applies: why would some company co in country x be more entitled to the one in country y? After all the reservation rules have been applied and determined some specific reservation outcome. There are some proposed solutions in that case too, some of which I have outlined before. >Why should any brand be entitled to such

> why should be some company "co" from country x be more entitled to their own tld than the company co with the same name from country y? Because in some cases, that is the rule. See Rule #5 https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-names > if a brand was not significant enough to reach internet search significance why should they be entitled to their own tld? Why should any brand be entitled to such things? > but resorting to hand-wavy rants won't be constructive or helpful for any serious dialogue. Can you quote where I did this? I could for you

The instructions you pasted are for claiming a name that was pre-reserved when Handshake launched [1]. This is different from creating and obtaining a new name on the blockchain. [1] https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-names

They have in fact used phrases like "overthrow" and "collision course" You have to look at their behavior and communications over time and beyond their website Some of the community wants to aggressively replace ICANN, that is the context, not changing how DNS works. https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-names/issues/6#issuecomm... This is the flaw, being an uncooperative community member in the DNS ecosystem

> When ICANN does issue new TLDs, they’ll only allow at most 500 new TLDs per year. The likelihood of conflict is low even though conflicts can technically happen. Oh, "only" 500? Out of which a substantial fraction will be common words and therefore likely to be squatted on if Handshake is even remotely popular? I wondered if Handshake was at least trying to reserve English words, but apparently not, judging by this: Names which were added _after_ the final snapshot: - `charity` - A new gTLD added on ICANN's system. - `inc` - A new gTLD added on ICANN's system. - https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-names/blob/master/README... Please tell me there's something I'm missing...