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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:2.55pt;margin-bottom:9.25pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:106%'>May 7<sup>th</sup> 2019 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.95pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left;text-indent:0cm;line-height:106%'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:2.5pt;margin-bottom:7.85pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:106%'><span style='color:#333333'>ICANN </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:2.5pt;margin-bottom:5.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:106%'><span style='color:#333333'>12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300 </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:2.5pt;margin-bottom:13.75pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:106%'><span style='color:#333333'>Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536 </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:2.5pt;margin-bottom:13.2pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:106%'><span style='color:#333333'>USA</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:15.35pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left;text-indent:0cm;line-height:106%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:3.1pt;margin-bottom:3.6pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center;text-indent:0cm;line-height:106%'><b><u><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:106%;color:#333333'>Public comment on the </span></u></b><b><u><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:106%'>Proposed Renewal of .asia Registry Agreement</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:106%'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.75pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left;text-indent:0cm;line-height:106%'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:11.6pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:left;line-height:106%'><u>Executive Summary</u> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:2.55pt;margin-bottom:4.4pt;margin-left:0cm'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:2.55pt;margin-bottom:4.4pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:150%'>Renewal of the .asia registry agreement with DotAsia Organization Limited should be assessed against the background of the Internet addiction global problem. According to academic research, Internet addiction disorder (IAD) results in personal, family, and occupational problems.<b><span style='font-size:21.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif'> </span></b><span style='color:#222222'>Internet addiction can be decomposed into several subtypes of behavior and impulse control problems, namely, Debauchery, cyber-relationship addiction, net compulsions, information overload, compulsive web surfing or database searches and net gaming.</span><b><span style='font-size:21.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif'> </span></b>Internet gaming has been classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a disease in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).<b><span style='font-size:21.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif'> </span></b>There is a large correlation between addiction to online social networks and generalized Internet addiction.<b><span style='font-size:21.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif'> </span></b><span style='color:#231F20'>The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that Facebook has created are destroying how society works and it is eroding the core foundations of how people behave by and between each other.</span><span style='color:#222222'> Smartphones and the social media platforms they support are turning us into <i>bona fide</i> addicts. Platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram leverage the very same neural circuitry used by slot machines and cocaine to keep us using their products as much as possible.</span><span style='font-size:21.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif'> </span>Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) ruins lives by causing neurological complications, psychological disturbances, and social problems. <span style='color:#333333'>Smartphone or Internet addiction can also negatively impact your life by<b> </b>increasing loneliness and depression</span><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>, </span></b><span style='color:#333333'>fueling anxiety, increasing stress</span><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>, </span></b><span style='color:#333333'>exacerbating attention deficit disorders</span><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>, </span></b><span style='color:#333333'>diminishing your ability to concentrate and think deeply or creatively</span><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>, </span></b><span style='color:#333333'>disturbing your sleep</span><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'> </span></b>and<b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'> </span></b><span style='color:#333333'>encouraging self-absorption.</span><b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'> </span></b>The psychopathological overlap between IA, substance addiction and pathological gambling suggests a common neurobiological substrate, involving a dopamine dysfunction of the neural “reward systems”.<b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'> </span></b>Debauchery destroys the brain. Lust and promiscuity, explains Nachman of Breslev, lead to a breakdown of logic, common sense and even insanity. The proof is that in this decadent age, so many people are in need of psychiatric medication, whereas millions suffer from anxiety and depression.<b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'> </span></b>All the people who are out of their minds, because they fell into the difficult disease of looking at women and all kinds of filthy movies on the Internet, on the iPhone, Facebook, etc., to the point of burning lust in real madness. Gambling is a terrible sickness, even more addictive than alcohol, tobacco and drugs.<b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'> </span></b>The lust for money is the root cause of gambling affliction, which not only drives a person insane, but makes him or her lose faith in the Creator, and truth and emuna in His Divine providence, Heaven forbid. The gambler is cruel to his family.<b><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'> </span></b>The owners and operators of gambling parlors are outright murderers. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:2.55pt;margin-bottom:.8pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:2.55pt;margin-bottom:.8pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='color:#333333'>ICANN, some ICANN-accredited registrars, some registry operators and some Domain Name Registrants are fostering Internet Addiction</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>. </span>DotAsia Organization Limited is fostering Internet addiction<span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>. </span>Fostering Internet addiction is a disastrous violation of fundamental human rights and GAC Communiqué – Beijing, People’s Republic of China<span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>. </span>Fostering Internet addiction by ICANN, some ICANN-accredited registrars, some registry operators and some <span style='color:#333333'>Domain Name registrants</span> is a violation of applicable laws<span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>. </span>Fostering Internet addiction is a violation of ICANN's Articles of Incorporation, Board of Directors' Code of Conduct, Governance Guidelines, Commitments, Core Values and By-Laws<span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:2.55pt;margin-bottom:7.9pt;margin-left:0cm'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:2.55pt;margin-bottom:7.9pt;margin-left:0cm'>In view of the above, we require ICANN to terminate immediately the activities fostering Internet addiction, including the performance of relevant IANA functions, relevant gTLD activities, relevant Registry Operators' activities, relevant ICANN-accredited registrars' activities, including through RESP and amendments of registry and registrar agreements and to refrain from renewing the .asia registry agreement with DotAsia Organization Limited unless DotAsia Organization Limited and its related companies terminate immediately activities fostering Internet addiction and the .asia registry agreement is amended to prohibit Internet addiction activities. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Rabbi Shalom Arush<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:148%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Head of the "Chut Shel Chessed" Institutions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:148%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:2.55pt;margin-bottom:4.7pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:148%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>For the full article, please see the attachment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:2.55pt;margin-bottom:4.7pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:148%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:2.55pt;margin-bottom:4.7pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:148%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>--------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:2.55pt;margin-bottom:4.7pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:148%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h1><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>The Universal Garden of Emuna</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal'>Author</span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray;font-weight:normal'>: <a href="https://www.breslev.co.il/storesearchresults.aspx?type=3&text=Rabbi+Shalom+Arush&lid=1&minprice=0&maxprice=0&popular=0&new=0&pageid=1&language=English" target="_blank">Rabbi Shalom Arush</a></span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>The Universal Garden of Emuna</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>What’s the consolation in knowing that the world is full of strife when our personal lives are a never-ending saga of stress, worry, anxiety and challenges? Making a living today is like being a 21st Century gladiator. Family units are falling apart and marital bliss seems like a pipedream. People face child-education problems that they never imagined. What can a person do to maintain sanity? If sanity is such a struggle, who dares to dream of genuine happiness, fulfillment and true inner peace? You do.<o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>As soon as you open up the first page of the new </span><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>Universal Garden of Emuna</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'> by internationally acclaimed best-selling author Shalom Arush, whose books have helped millions of people around the globe live better lives, you gain the master-key to life’s locked doors, especially the doors to fulfilling your own personal potential.<o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>Far from flash-in-the-pan fad spirituality, the new non-denomenational </span><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>Universal Garden of Emuna </span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>takes the reader by the hand along the proven path to satisfaction of the soul. By learning emuna – the pure and simple faith in the Creator - the reader learns how to cultivate an intimate personal relationship with the Creator.<o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>This book will quickly become your best friend, a book you’ll want to read over and over! A complete and total life-changer!</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>By world-renowned spiritual guide and bestselling author Shalom Arush, translated by Lazer Brody.<o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>Paperback, 406 information-packed pages, including an amazing new explanation of the Seven Noahide Commandments for all mankind.<o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>In English – https://www.breslev.co.il/store/the_universal_garden_of_emuna/spirituality_and_faith/books.aspx?id=16146&language=english<o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>In French – http://www.joie2vivre.org/produit/le-jardin-universel-de-la-foi/<o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'>In Spanish - <a href="https://www.breslev.co.il/store/en_el_jard%C3%ADn_de_la_fe_universal_gu%C3%ADa_pr%C3%A1ctica_de_vida_para_todo_ser_humano_en_espa%C3%B1ol/rabino_arush_y_autoayuda/libros.aspx?id=23093&language=spanish">https://www.breslev.co.il/store/en_el_jard%C3%ADn_de_la_fe_universal_gu%C3%ADa_pr%C3%A1ctica_de_vida_para_todo_ser_humano_en_espa%C3%B1ol/rabino_arush_y_autoayuda/libros.aspx?id=23093&language=spanish</a><o:p></o:p></span></h3><pre style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Rubin International Law Firm and Notary<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>11 Avinoam Yelin Street Jerusalem Israel<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="mailto:info@advrubin.com">info@advrubin.com</a> <a href="mailto:naftali.rubin@gmail.com">naftali.rubin@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>+972-544-705-200<o:p></o:p></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:148%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>