> common name, like "water" or "air" and that domain should not be on private hands This seems like an entirely separate argument. Domains like .earth and .co

> common name, like "water" or "air" and that domain should not be on private hands This seems like an entirely separate argument. Domains like .earth and .country are privately owned, nobody cares. http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt