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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Dear Sir/Madam,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">I am hereby writing to submit an objection to the release of the name “it.pizza” for its registration by the Registry operator of this TLD, Foggy Moon,
LLC. (Request R000110 @ <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/two-character-labels" target="_blank">
https://www.icann.org/resources/two-character-labels</a>). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">We have</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> recently made aware of this application by a third party and not by the Registry Operator filing the abovementioned application.
</span><span style="color:black">In this regard we would kindly request clarification from your services as regards the implementation of Specification 5 of the current Registry Agreement in paragraph 2, which mentions that “<b><i>Two-character labels. All
two-character ASCII labels shall be withheld from registration or allocated to Registry Operator at the second level within the TLD. Such labels may not be activated in the DNS, and may not be released for registration to any person or entity other than Registry
Operator, provided that such two-character label strings may be released to the extent that Registry Operator reaches agreement with the related government and country-code manager of the string as specified in the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard.”</i></b> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Up until today, we have not received formal notification nor have we been approached by the Registry Operator with a view to reach an agreement on the
release of the two-character “it” in the domain name “it.pizza” and had we been not informed by a third party of this application we may have not been aware of its existence as it is not within any individual possibilities to actively monitor each and every
application which may be filed by Registry Operators.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">IT is the country code for Italy and since 2010 “pizza” is a Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) of Italy (see Commission Regulation No 97/2010 to
this effect). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">The combination of our ccSLD with the name of a TSG could lead the online consumers to believe that they are buying a genuine pizza, prepared with ingredients
with specific qualities characteristics and cooked following the original recipe, while there is no current guarantee by the Registry that those requirements would be fulfilled (the entire process is fully detailed in Annex 2, par. 3 of the above-mentioned
Regulation)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">For this reason, we respectfully submit an objection to this application; request clarifications on your side as regards the proper implementation
and process to follow when it comes to Specification 5, paragraph 2 of the Registry Agreement; and request that until the Registry Operator engages into negotiations with the Italian government “it.pizza” remains withheld from registration</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">
so that it can only be assigned to a person, entity or corporation proposed or accepted by Italy</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">(included our ccTLD Registry “.it”).
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">This would allow the Italian government to ensure third level domain names representing professional pizza makers or pizza restaurants and
which have and maintain the right to define their cooked food as genuine pizza to consequently use the respective registered logo. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="spelle"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">We</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">
<span class="spelle">would</span> <span class="spelle">appreciate</span> <span class="spelle">
being</span> informed of the decision taken in regards to our objection, and look forward for prompt clarifications</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Best Regards</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Rita Forsi</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Italian GAC Representative<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Director General</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Ministry of Economic Development
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