GTLD Briefing

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GTLD Briefing

• APSTAR Retreat Beijing
• 24th August 2009

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Background

• 23rd Oct 2008 First draft of GTLD Application
  Guidebook
• 9th Jan 2009 Updated on GTLD Application
  Guidebook
• 7th May 2009 Amended Guidebook for public
  comments
• 10th June 2009 Overarching issues Update
• 24th July 2009 GTLD Outreach in Hong Kong
• Summary
• Allow any GTLD, commercial or non-profit
• Allow IDN in TLD (first time in history)
• Application fees is US180,000
• Expect to run up to US250,000 per application
• Will use auction to resolve conflicting bids

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Latest Anticipated Timeline

• Based on the latest info, the Application
  Launch will start in Q1 2010.

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General Outstanding Issues

• Trademark Protection - IRT/URS
• Potential amplification of malicious conduct
• Geographical Names
• Root Zone Scaling
• Economic study of new GTLD demand
• Security and Stability impacts of an expanded
  numbers of GTLD

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Outstanding Issues in IDN

• 3 Character Letter Limitation
• Policy Requirements for Generic Top-Level Domains
  Applied-for strings must be composed of three
  or more visually distinct letters or characters
  in the script, as appropriate.
• IDN CJK Variants
• Currently, each Variants of the same TLD is
  considered a new applications.
• Cost to Applicants but more importantly, that
  cost pass down to applicants. Applicants have to
  pay multiple times for the same domain name.

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JET Open Letter to ICANN
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Potential Applicants from Asia

• CNNIC (CN)
• ChinaGov (CN)
• NET.CN (CN)
• XinNet (CN)
• Net-Chinese (TW)
• dotAsia (HK)
• GMO (JP)
• Interlink (JP)
• RegistriesASP (MY)
• IP Mirror (SG)

• Affilas (US)
• Verisign (US)
• i-DNS.net (Asia/US)
• (Korea is complicated)

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The Problem

• A large number of IDN gTLD from Asia
• Application fee is US180,000 (est. US250,000)
  
• Chinese, Japanese and Korean share the same
  script (CJK Ideographs). There is a good chance
  we may conflict with each another.
• If two or more people applied for the same TLD,
• Default action goes into an Auction which means
  even more money than the initial application fees
• The process does not allow mediation and
  partnership after application is submitted

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Asia Registries Consortium

• Pre-emptive TLD conflicts among members
• Members will self-organize to prevent or reduce
  competing TLD applications
• Be a voice for TLD operators based in Asia to
  address our concerns
• Strength in numbers
• Common resources and provide assistance

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Proposed Model

• Not for Profit
• Open Membership
• Members remains independent operators
• To discuss where to put the consortium
• CDNC has offered to be the umbrella. No consensus
  from members

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Informal Members

• CNNIC
• NET.CN
• Net-Chinese
• GMO
• Interlink
• IP Mirror
• RegistryASP
• dotAsia
• Zodiac

• Currently discussing the MOU and joint activities
  in ICANN Seoul