Verisign's Sitefind "service" completely trods on the intent of Appendix K of their contract with ICANN which is intended to prevent the registration of a special list of domain names. My read of the intent of this document was that it was always intended to prevent the *use* of (and therefore the ensuing confusion) of a special class of names.

Other registries that allowed for the use of reserved names have required special dispensation in the past. For instance, SITA uses two character airline designator codes in the second level domain of the structure of .aero. This caused some discussion, but it was widely felt that this was reasonable given that the IATA codes that SITA was proposing to use "...have been in use in the aviation community for about 50 years. They are a well established coding system within that community. The chances that these two-letter code elements can be mistaken for ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code elements are thus quite small."