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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Will,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My personal experience with ICANN tells me this: If you (like me) want a 2<sup>nd</sup> round to happen – and in this decade- then YOU have to start that movement. Because if none of us starts it then NOTHING will happen.<br><br>I think latest in Morocco a group will have to form that beats the drum. The good thing is that THIS TIME we can count on some unlikely allies (which in the past tried to slow down everything):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:20.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>The GAC: Brought up to speed by all the city managers who missed the band wagon and do not want to look stupid any more longer. None of the city TLD’s has gained traction yet; but it’s just a matter of time until you will see a full page TIME magazine advertisement sporting a city TLD based domain – and then all majors of cities that matter will run around like headless chicken – and eventually will start to lobby their GAC member. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:20.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>The brand community: Once the first global brand starts to actively promote their brand gTLD the life for hundreds of brand managers will likely become hell on earth – their board will pelt them with curses and demand an instant catch up. The IP constituency and ANA (entities that constantly tried to bury the current round) will be forced by their own members to revert to active promoters for a 2<sup>nd</sup> round.<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.25pt;text-align:justify'>In the last round most participants were closeted: Brands wanted to keep it calm, applicants for generics were afraid of copy cats, mostly just those serving a community like city TLD’s or community applicants were really visible and advertised their string (and not even all of them did that). But this time I assume brands won’t be ashamed to promote a 2<sup>nd</sup> round and certainly cities not! So to speed things up we could ask the 200 top brands and the 100 top cities to issue kind of an statement in this regard – to show the demand. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.25pt;text-align:justify'><br>We probably need a WG for the whole issue.<br><br>To answer your question: The 2<sup>nd</sup> round could start as early as 2017/2018 with the first 2<sup>nd</sup> round TLD’s being in the root THIS decade. And why not having this as goal: At least one 2<sup>nd</sup> round gTLD in the root this decade. Why not planting this notion into the head of different stakeholders – and maybe even the CEO?<br><br>The biggest single problem of the 2<sup>nd</sup> round however will be demand: It will be way to high. I expect not less than a 5 figure amount of applications and we should have something in place that keeps the flood at bay.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.25pt;text-align:justify'><br>Alexander.berlin<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org [mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Will Ellis<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 08, 2014 12:34 PM<br><b>To:</b> steve.chan@icann.org<br><b>Cc:</b> gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gnso-newgtld-dg] - Reminder: Submit Issues & Nominations for Group Chair(s)<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Hi Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I am a new joiner to this group.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I often get asked when will there be a round 2 of new gTLDs. I appreciate it will be too early to answer that question yet, but it would be helpful to understand the milestones this group needs to undertake in order to have a clearer picture on the timeline to round 2. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Any assistance you can offer in this area would be greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><br>Will <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB>Will Ellis<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB>gTLD lead<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB>Nominet UK<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:6.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>e <a href="mailto:jo.golley@nominet.org.uk">will.ellis@nominet.org.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>t 01865 332211<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>m 07880 009899<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:6.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://www.nominet.org.uk/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=260 height=54 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CFCB64.0C360A30" alt="http://www.nominet.org.uk/sites/default/files/NomLogoEmailSignature.jpg"></span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Nominet UK is a private limited company, registered in England and Wales. 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