<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Arial Black";
panose-1:2 11 10 4 2 1 2 2 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
p
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0in;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0in;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal">Madame Chairwoman Cade:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you have indeed found a way to clone yourself can you please share it with members of the BC? That way, we could send our clones to ICANN meetings while we stay home and get our other work done ;-)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(PS—The post is a guest article by Kieren McCarthy touting his .nxt Conference next month in San Francisco.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://domainincite.com/ready-to-apply-for-a-gtld-no-you%E2%80%99re-not-not-even-remotely/">http://domainincite.com/ready-to-apply-for-a-gtld-no-you%E2%80%99re-not-not-even-remotely/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight:normal">So, yes, it’s been a long, drawn-out and dispiriting exercise to get to the point where the structure of the internet will be radically changed forever.</span></strong><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p>But even if the US government invades ICANN’s offices in Los Angeles, trademark lawyers kidnap Rod Beckstrom,
<b>and Marilyn Cade clones herself 100 times</b>, nothing can stop the raw reality that 2011 is the year of the gTLD. It’s happening. So stop sulking and start getting excited about it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.8pt;margin-left:0in">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:navy">Philip S. Corwin <br>
Partner <br>
Butera & Andrews <br>
1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW <br>
Suite 500 <br>
Washington, DC 20004</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.8pt;margin-left:0in">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:navy">202-347-6875 (office) </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.8pt;margin-left:0in">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:navy">202-347-6876 (fax</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.8pt;margin-left:0in">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:navy">202-255-6172 (cell)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.8pt;margin-left:0in">
<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:navy">"Luck is the residue of design."</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:navy"> -- Branch Rickey</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>