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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Also there have been a couple of registries that were vertically integrated and now aren’t eg. Minds and Machines and Nominet, though in the Nominet case I *<b>think</b>* their registrar
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Gnso-newgtld-wg-wt2 <gnso-newgtld-wg-wt2-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@nic.br><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday 22 December 2017 at 00:13<br>
<b>To: </b>Steve Chan <steve.chan@icann.org><br>
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg-wt2] [Ext] Re: GDD Response to Vertical Integration Data Request<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">I believe they mixed legal entities and registry families in the response. The initial number does look like legal entities, but since we know that Donuts become vertically-integrated with the
acquisition of Rightside, that would have put many more legal entities in the list, because Donuts use one legal entity per TLD, while other portfolio registries operate with a single legal entity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">I wouldn't count on the precision of the response considering the numbers they gave. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">On 21 Dec 2017, at 20:41, Steve Chan <</span><a href="mailto:steve.chan@icann.org"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">steve.chan@icann.org</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">My understanding is that the 275 represents notifications received by ICANN. For example, if Company ABC123 has signed 3 Registry Agreements
with ICANN and sent 3 notices under each of its RAs, regarding its new Affiliate, that would count as 3 of the 275 notifications.</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">From:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Rubens
Kuhl <</span></span><a href="mailto:rubensk@nic.br"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">rubensk@nic.br</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">><br>
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<b>To:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Steve Chan <</span></span><a href="mailto:steve.chan@icann.org"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">steve.chan@icann.org</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">><br>
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<b>Subject:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>[Ext] Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg-wt2] GDD Response to Vertical Integration Data Request</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">WT2, during its meeting on 18 May 2017, requested statistics on how many registry operators are vertically integrated. While apologizing
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To date, ICANN has tracked notifications received from approximately 275 vertically integrated contracted parties. Sixteen of these notifications were received after contracting (4 in 2014, 10 in 2015, and 2 in 2017). However, contracted parties are not required
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">I believe it would be interesting to know whether this refers to 275 TLDs, 275 registry legal entities or 275 registry families... some registry groups have more than
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