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ICANN Buenos Aires Recap Webinar What You Need to Know

Elisa Cooper VP Product Marketing

MarkMonitor

Matt Serlin VP Global Client Services

MarkMonitor

ICANN Singapore Recap Webinar

Featured Speakers

Elisa Cooper

Vice President, Product Marketing

MarkMonitor

Matt Serlin

Vice President, Global Client Services

MarkMonitor

Agenda

ICANN 53 Overview

New gTLD Program Status, Review and Next Round

Suspect Registry Pricing Practices

Privacy / Proxy Controversy

Status of the IANA Transition and ICANN Accountability

Working Group

Governmental Advisory Committee Communique

Becoming Involved

ICANN 53 Overview

Held in Buenos Aires, June 21 - 25

• Overall attendance down from ICANN Singapore

• Participation by large corporations continues to improve

Announcement of CEO’s early departure hung heavy in the air

Major focus on the IANA Transition

New gTLDs Status, Review and Next Round

New gTLD Program Nearing Completion

Source: ICANN 53 Buenos Aires

660+ New gTLD Delegated

Source: ICANN 53 Buenos Aires

6.2 Million New gTLD Registrations

Source: ntldstats.com

Top 10 Most Popular New gTLDs

Source: ntldstats.com

1 .porn

2 .sucks

3 .adult

4 .reviews

5 .公司 (xn--55qx5d)

6 .support

7 .nyc

8 .网络 (xn--io0a7i)

9 .global

10 .london

11 .solutions

12 .website

13 .clothing

14 .video

15 .club

16 .healthcare

17 .help

18 .toys

19 .technology

20 .xyz

Top 20 Most Popular Corporate New gTLDs

Suspect Registry Practices

Ongoing New gTLD Concerns

Issues related to Sunrise periods

• Reserved Names never subject to Sunrise

• Lack of accredited registrars

Compliance

• Lack of understanding of actual requirements, in some cases

• Little proactive auditing

Universal Acceptance

New gTLD Pricing Trends

Vox Populi - .Sucks

• Sunrise Premium Domains

• Higher pricing for TMs indefinitely – not just in Sunrise

Famous Four - .Date / .Faith/ .Review

• Brand Protection Premium Names

• Higher pricing for TMs after Sunrise – first year only

Asiamix Digital Limited - .Fans

• Protect Names List

• Higher pricing for TMs after Sunrise

Upcoming New gTLD Reviews

Source: ICANN 52 Singapore

Privacy / Proxy Controversy

Privacy / Proxy Issues

Easily accessible and accurate Whois information

Contactability and responsiveness of Privacy and Proxy

Service Providers

Standard form and requirements for Abuse Reporting and

Information Requests

Accessible / Accurate Information

Information behind P/P shield should be verified and

validated according to Whois Accuracy Specification in

RAA

Permissible use – restrict use of P/P shield to websites

NOT engaged in active financial transactions

Status of the IANA Transition and

ICANN Accountability Working Group

IANA Transition

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National

Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

announced intent to transition key Internet domain name

functions to the global multi-stakeholder community

NTIA is asking ICANN to convene global stakeholders to

develop a proposal to transition the current role played by NTIA

in the coordination of the Internet’s Domain Name System

(DNS)

What Are the IANA Fx?

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions is a

set of interdependent technical functions that enable the

continued efficient operation of the Internet

The IANA functions include:

• The coordination of the assignment of technical Internet protocol

parameters

• The processing of change requests to the authoritative root zone

file of the DNS and root key signing key (KSK) management

• The allocation of Internet numbering resources

• Other services related to the management of the ARPA and INT

top-level domains (TLDs)

NTIA Requirements for Transition

NTIA has communicated to ICANN that the transition proposal

must have broad community support and address the following

four principles:

• Support and enhance the multi-stakeholder model

• Maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet

DNS

• Meet the needs and expectations of the global customers

and partners of the IANA services

• Maintain the openness of the Internet

Understanding the Process

Transition Requirements

Source: ICANN 53 Buenos Aires

Proposed Membership Model

Enhancing Accountability

Timing

GAC Communique

GAC Focus and Working Groups

Protection of Geographic Names

Public Safety

Underserved Regions

GAC Participation in Nominating Committee

Human Rights and International Law

Review of GAC Operating Principles

Governmental and IGO Engagement

Significant for .Brand Registries

Country / Territory Domains in New gTLDs

Development of database containing requirements for

requesting the release of country and territory domains is under

development

Option for countries to state that they will not object and/or will

not require notification

ETA – End of July 2015

GAC gTLD Safeguards

gTLD Safeguards

• Some applicants in highly-regulated sectors without verifying

credentials

• Others like .Bank have implemented policies for verifying

credentials

Recommendations

• Create list of commended registries that can demonstrate best

practices

• Assessment of abusive registrations

• Development of a “Scorecard” to understand what Safeguard

advice has been implemented, is in progress, or has been

rejected

GAC – Protection of IGO Acronyms

Acronyms for IGOs

• ISO – International Sugar Organization

• NPI – Nordic Patent Institute

• ECO – Economic Cooperation Organization

At both the top and second level

• Example - NAME.ISO and ISO.TLD

Recommend that they remain unavailable until permanent

measures are in place

GAC – Community Priority Evaluations

Community Priority Evaluations

• Priority given to Community TLDs when multiple applications

received for the same TLD

• Meet specific criteria defined as part of New gTLD Program

GAC notes, “does not appear to have met applicant

expectations”

Ombudsman report expected in Dublin

Becoming Involved

More Information

Source: ICANN 52 Singapore

Consider Active Participation

ICANN Business Constituency

• Bizconst.org

Intellectual Property Constituency

• Ipconstituency.org

Brand Registry Group

• Brandregistrygroup.org

Q&A

Featured Speakers

Elisa Cooper

Vice President, Product Marketing

MarkMonitor

Matt Serlin

Vice President, Global Client Services

MarkMonitor

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