[At-Large] Results Available for 17 December 2014 New gTLD Program Auction

Thu Dec 18 16:59:36 UTC 2014

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Edmon Chung <edmon at registry.asia> wrote:
>
> I sympathize very much with the sentiment.
> Not only is ICANN "auctioning off "baby"", it has essentially decided that
> required policies for ".baby" is no different than ".shop"...
> The registry can make it a free for all, and not even really be required to
> respect the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
> Personally, I think that is wrong.
>

If i may ask, what is wrong about that? i mean how is the right of a child
not respected through a simple name string?

I can understand referring to rights in relation to geographic strings but
i don't understand the rationale behind the example sighted above

Regards

> Edmon
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:at-large-bounces at atlarge-
> > lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of parminder
> > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 3:53 PM
> > To: at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> > Subject: Re: [At-Large] Results Available for 17 December 2014 New gTLD
> > Program Auction
> >
> >
> > It really hurts deeply to my public and political convictions when a
> generic term of
> > language like 'baby' is auctioned off to the highest bidder for a
> certain,
> extremely
> > important, exclusive use. What public interest has been served here? Is
> there
> > anyone to ask this question? And I direct this question specifically to
> that part of the
> > civil society which the rest of the world would trust should be asking
> the
> questions in
> > the ICANN's context.
> >
> > Any trademark authority would have rejected out of hand if Johnson and
> Johnson
> > had sought 'baby' as a trademark for itself. The reasons are obvious. But
> those
> > reasons do not mean anything to ICANN, and perhaps neither to civil
> society groups
> > associated with ICANN.
> >
> > But the trademark authorities are expressly public interest bodies, under
> public
> > authorities, which are in turn subject to institutionalised public
> oversight and
> > accountability.
> >
> > ICANN on the other hand is a system captured by a group of people, who
> have
> > developed the perfect means and system to keep all those close by and
> powerful
> > happy in different ways - it uses the euphemism 'stakeholders' for them.
> >
> > Most of all, it keeps the big daddy, the US happy, by employing various
> means to
> > support its  reign over theglobalInternet - it keeps a boisterous IG
> circuit in play that
> > supports the status quo, and drowns out every other voice. This has been
> done very
> > effectively till now.
> > Btw, which technical governance mandate ICANN was pursuing to propose and
> set
> > up the World Economic Forum based new Net Mundial Initiative, which is
> simply a
> > way to divert global demands for addressing pressing Internet related
> public policy
> > issues. This is done directly to appease US government's political
> interest, which
> > ICANN has no business to be doing.. And then it keep the domain name
> industry
> > happy and prospering, and also other major industries.... This group of
> people, which
> > goes in the name of ICANN, does all this using the enormous funds that it
> illegally
> > collects as a tax from global public using the Internet. This is where
> the
> money goes,
> > and it produces conditions for further extraction.
> >
> > It is a sorry state.
> >
> > parminder
> >
> >
> > On Thursday 18 December 2014 11:18 AM, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
> > > How long that will continue/last will be a question to answer in near
> > > future.
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > >
> > > sent from Google nexus 4
> > > kindly excuse brevity and typos.
> > > On 18 Dec 2014 02:02, "Carlton Samuels" <carlton.samuels at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> The money pile grows...
> > >>
> > >> -Carlton
> > >>
> > >> ==============================
> > >> Carlton A Samuels
> > >> Mobile: 876-818-1799
> > >> *Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround*
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> > >>
> > >>
> > >>    [image: ICANN] <http://www.icann.org/> News Alert
> > >>
> > >> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-12-17-en
> > >> ------------------------------
> > >> Results Available for 17 December 2014 New gTLD Program Auction
> > >>
> > >> 17 December 2014
> > >>
> > >> On 17 December 2014, Power Auctions LLC
> > >> <http://www.powerauctions.com/>, ICANN's authorized auction service
> > >> provider, conducted a New gTLD Program Auction to resolve string
> > >> contention for two new generic top-level domain
> > >> (gTLD) strings: .BABY and .MLS. Applicants for these strings were
> > >> unable to resolve contention among themselves; thus their contention
> > >> sets proceeded to auction, which is the method of last resort to
> > >> resolve string contention as prescribed in Module 4 of the New gTLD
> > >> Program Applicant Guidebook
> > >> <http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb>. Subject to payment of
> > >> the winning price and meeting all other criteria for eligibility, the
> > >> winner will enter ICANN's contracting process to sign a Registry
> Agreement to
> > operate the respective gTLD.
> > >>
> > >> Six applicants participated in the auction for .BABY. Johnson &
> > >> Johnson Services Inc. prevailed with a winning price of $3,088,888.
> > >>
> > >> Two applicants participated in the auction for MLS. The Canadian Real
> > >> Estate Association prevailed with a winning price of $3,359,000.
> > >>
> > >> All proceeds from the Auction are being segregated and withheld from
> > >> use until ICANN's Board of Directors define a plan for an appropriate
> > >> use of the funds through consultation with the community.
> > >> More Information
> > >>
> > >>     - Auction Results webpage
> > >>     <
> > >> https://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/auc
> > >> tionresults
> > >>> :
> > >>     Auction reports on this page on the New gTLD Microsite provide
> > >> additional
> > >>     information on bidding.
> > >>     - Auction proceeds and costs
> > >>     <http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/auctions/proceeds>: A
> detailed
> > >>     summary of the proceeds and costs of all auctions conducted
> through
> > >>     November 2014. This information is updated at the end of each
> month.
> > >>     - Auctions schedule
> > >>     <
> > >>
> http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/auctions/schedule-12dec14-en.pdf>
> > >>     [PDF, 253 KB]: Subsequent auctions are scheduled to occur on a
> monthly
> > >>     basis throughout 2014 and into early 2015. Auction events are
> > >> intended to
> > >>     resolve multiple contention sets simultaneously.
> > >>     - General New gTLD Program Auctions
> > >>     <http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/auctions> information.
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