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

Thu Dec 18 12:57:04 UTC 2014

Parminder,

It is indeed a sorry state when one jumps to conclusions.

Specification 11 of the Registry Agreement, says, in part:

d.     Registry Operator of a “Generic String” TLD may not impose
eligibility criteria for registering names in the TLD that limit
registrations exclusively to a single person or entity and/or that person’s
or entity’s “Affiliates” (as defined in Section 2.9(c) of the Registry
Agreement). “Generic String” means a string consisting of a word or term
that denominates or describes a general class of goods, services, groups,
organizations or things, as opposed to distinguishing a specific brand of
goods, services, groups, organizations or things from those of others.

So unless you have evidence that the winner of .baby has successfully
stricken this from the RA, I would suggest that you are incorrect about
this being a closed generic.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:52 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
wrote:
>
>
> 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
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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/
>>> auctionresults
>>>
>>>> :
>>>>
>>>     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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