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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Kurt, all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I believe ICANN have a responsibility to conduct some type of communication/awareness campaign as it related to new gTLDs under the 2012 round, perhaps not explicitly
to promote domain names but certainly to raise awareness about the program. I’m not sure whether this was baked into the 2007 policy or the AGB. I don’t believe this was ever done to anyone’s satisfaction and has been raised with ICANN during the last two
GDD Summits as a universal awareness rather than a universal acceptance issue. We had some good interaction on the subject with the Board members present during the Summit in Amsterdam last year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I appreciate that some do not support the idea that ICANN should actively promote domain names, but I do believe that ICANN has a responsibility to inform consumers
about the single most important change to the Internet in years. So just like the Australian Government and other governments have run consumer awareness campaigns about the changeover from analog to digital television, ICANN should be responsible for a consumer
awareness campaign regarding the introduction of thousands of new TLDs. I have previously suggested this to Akram during interactions with the GDD and the GNSO Council and his response has been that ICANN cannot promote one TLD over another. During the same
discussion James Bladel also suggested that ICANN has a responsibility to inform all consumers about any policy changes that have the potential to impact them, referring at the time to changes to verifying WHOIS that had been causing some issues at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I guess my question is if this PDP WG is the wrong place, as some suggest, to consider this as a policy issue—what would be the right place?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org [mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-bounces@icann.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kurt Pritz<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 02, 2017 11:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jeff Neuman <jeff.neuman@comlaude.com>; avri@apc.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> gnso-newgtld-wg@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Gnso-newgtld-wg] Domain Name Promotion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Jeff, Avri, et al:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I saw that this has been published. <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_en_system_files_correspondence_diaz-2Dto-2Datallah-2Det-2Dal-2D14mar17-2Den.pdf&d=DwMFaQ&c=MOptNlVtIETeDALC_lULrw&r=4A3LwUUER9_CePZ11QJsr56eryGQiPHEqv4TL7JH87w&m=RTaBqz8dTcB5YLgS72pPgwrf_aISgWznTdJCQLIbsFg&s=sOJAk3oFHL4c3S5yrt0bxrRR8nQrP3y35I-xmZCcVmA&e=">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/diaz-to-atallah-et-al-14mar17-en.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The reason I am writing is in reference to the proposal that: “ICANN create a fund, to be seeded with US$3M at start-up, to promote universal awareness of new gTLDs to the general Internet user community, and universal acceptance of new
gTLDs across the Internet.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the past, when ICANN staff members have been asked in public fora to begin an effort to promote the use of domain names, the response has generally been that it is not ICANN’s role to promote the use of domain names and domain name registries. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To me, this is not an operations question; this is a policy question. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the current environment, i.e., absent a policy statement, ICANN can easily proceed to take up the RySG recommendation, especially for this relatively small seed fund. I hope we all urge that ICANN do this. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">However, if ICANN hesitates to take up an awareness campaign regarding the benefits of domain names (Including how they can be used and their efficacy as a strategic tool), then a policy statement could direct such an action. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ICANN is for two things, the allocation of domain names and IP addresses. Who else is to inform the largely ignorant public on the utility of domain names if not ICANN? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All of us argued about how best to introduce and govern domain name usage - but we are all in favor of domain name uptake and the safe and stable growth of the domain name industry. All of us show up at ICANN meetings to talk about the
best way to delegate and register names. If we and ICANN are not for their usage - why be part of this?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Some of us were against the new gTLD program and others were not happy with the final policy or implementation. Does that mean they want to see the program fail? Of course not. The new gTLD program is the culmination of many years and many
thousand people-hours of work. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With tools and resources for promoting public understanding of domain names readily available, I don’t see how ICANN (the staff or the community) can sit idly by. With the cash surplus in hand, as Patton said, “we are at the right time
in the right place with the right instrument,” to do something to fortify the domain name system and industry. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">During the slow process of launching new TLDs, search, apps and social media became strong competition for domain name adoption. It is time for us champions of domain names to use the tools at our disposal, including a small portion of
that excess application fee cash, to create public awareness about the domain name industry that we have created. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My recommendation is that this PDP working group should form a team to consider this issue and make a separate recommendation to the GNSO Council in a timely manner. A separate team is justifiable because this effects the previous as well
as the next round. I also think the current PDP working group can be more nimble as compared to the effort necessary to start a new policy discussion.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That recommendation could simply be a statement that it <i>is
</i> the role of ICANN to promote awareness of domain names and the benefits of competition and choice in the domain name industry.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We can show that we can act. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kurt<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Kurt Pritz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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