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<div dir="ltr">Thank you for this Kathy. But the criteria you have given are for "Community TLDs" which is not synonymous with a closed generic. If a community wanted to operate for the benefit of that community, it would not need this new "closed generic"
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<div dir="ltr">If your use case is that the US Polo Association that applied as a community for .polo said it represents the entire polo community, but it will only allow registrations by the US Polo Association members and no one else, then that in theory
could be a "Closed Generic", but by definition it would fail a community analysis because the eligibility requirements for a string are not reasonably related to the community (which is polo in general). Stated another way, operating as closed generic does
not benefit the community necessarily, but rather benefits the organization and its users (which may be some of the community, but not all).<span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr">My point is that we should not be using the community criteria in the closed generic discussion. They are two separate concepts that need to be destinct. <span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr">I would encourage us to look more at the proposed use of the TLD and how a closed generic can be used in a manner that can serve a public interest goal. Focusing on the WHO I believe takes us down a rabbit hole in my view.<span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr">In that vein it occurred to me that we have spent a lot of time on the who because our examples were all established institutions, associations, IGOs, etc. But today I came up with a cool Closed Generic idea which I have much more flushed out.
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<div dir="ltr">I start a company to compete with ancestry.com and I want a TLD for .familytree. I set up a portal that is able to aggregate data from each of the DNA/genealogy services, census data, newspapers, cemeteries, etc. when a user signs up for my
service and consents to link their accounts to those other services. I set up my family tree on neuman.familytree and I grant access to whomever I want to be able to see my data, but also where applicable to import portions of my family tree into theirs and
I can export their family tree data into mine. So my aunt/uncle/cousins whose last name is Lynn has Lynn.familytree where I can find their data and import the potions that relate to my family tree. Domain Names are only owned by my company that licenses
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<div dir="ltr">This example has some unique aspects that we previously have not really focused on:</div>
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<li><span> The benefit to the registry is purely commercial</span></li><li>I am a new start up business and not an association or large commercial player</li><li>Benefits are accrued to my members because they are satisfied customers and can easily enable others to find them (when they want to be found).</li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hi All,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I presented what sounded like a rather complex use case on Monday, and it’s much simpler than it sounds! The ICANN Community has already discussed many of terms and concepts
we are pondering in our Small Group via a process called the <i style="">Community Objection</i> to new gTLD applications. Let me share more details in writing<i style="">.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Lawyers love “precedent” and there is a lot of valuable precedent in how the ICANN Community created rules to allow Communities to stop applications for new gTLD strings they
felt involved words or terms <i style="">strongly associated</i> with which a group, association, set of companies, or set of organizations. Specifically, our ICANN rules allowed (and will continue to allow in future gTLD rounds) the filing of a Community
Objection defined as follows: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“<b style="">Community Objection</b> – There is substantial opposition to the gTLD application from a significant portion of the community to which
the gTLD string may be explicitly or implicitly targeted.” <i style="">Applicant Guidebook 3.2.1</i>
<a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title="" style=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">To challenge an Applicant’s choice of a proposed new gTLD, the group/association/</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">company/organization
had to show its qualifications as an <i style="">established institution and level of global recognition</i> and
<i style="">ongoing relationship with a clearly delineated community</i>, and <i style="">
strong association between the applied-for gTLD string and the community</i>, and
<i style="">a likelihood of material detriment to the rights or legitimate interests of a significant portion of the community</i> if the applied-for gTLD string was delegated to the applicant(s) as registry.<span style="">
</span><span style=""> </span></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> The International Centre for Expertise of the International Chamber of Commerce (chosen by ICANN to run these proceedings) picked an Expert who then decided whether the group/
association/company/organization could stop the new gTLD application. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Of the Community Objections filed in the first round, the groups/associations/companies/ organizations below prevailed</span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">and these are the “Use Cases” I shared on Monday:<a href="#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title="" style=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">[ii]</span></span></span></span></a>
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<p style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i style=""><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For future closed generic gTLDs, this process gives us a good model, namely that the group/association/company/organization filing for a closed generic gTLD should show that
it is: </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">an <b style="">
<i style="">established institution with global recognition</i></b>, and <b style="">
<i style=""></i></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.75in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-indent:-.25in">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">an <b style="">
<i style="">ongoing relationship with the clearly delineated community</i></b>, and
<b style=""><i style=""></i></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.75in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-indent:-.25in">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">a <b style="">
<i style="">strong association with the applied-for gTLD string, </i></b>and<b style=""><i style="">
</i></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">a clear proposal to use the gTLD for the benefit
<b style=""><i style="">of a significant portion of the community to which the string may be explicitly or implicitly targeted.</i></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">(Quick note that the burden of proof must be with the group, association, company, or organization applying for a new gTLD closed generic application and they must show this proof clearly in the public portion
of their application to ICANN and the Community.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I look forward to discussing with you!</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Kathy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Background information:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">New gTLD Applicant Guidebook Rules for Community Objections</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">(New gTLD Applicant Guidebook 2012)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Key Terms and Criteria for Proving Them<a href="#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title="" style=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">[iii]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Below are the key terms that the group/association/companies/organizations in the table above use in their proceedings before The International Centre for Expertise of the
International Chamber of Commerce to stop a proposed gTLD string and application.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“<b style=""><i style="">It is an established institution</i></b> – Factors that may be considered in making this determination include, but are not
limited to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in; text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Level of global recognition of the institution;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in; text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Length of time the institution has been in existence; and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Public historical evidence of its existence, such as the presence of a formal charter or national or international registration, or validation
by a</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">government, inter-governmental organization, or treaty. The institution must not have been established solely in conjunction with the gTLD</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">application process.”
<i style="">Applicant Guidebook 3.2.2.4</i></span><i style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">It has an ongoing relationship</span></i></b><i style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
<b style="">with a clearly delineated community </b>– </span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Factors that may be considered in making this determination include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• The presence of mechanisms for participation in activities, membership, and leadership;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Institutional purpose related to the benefit of the associated community;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Performance of regular activities that benefit the associated community; and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• The level of formal boundaries around the community.<i style="">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><i style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Applicant Guidebook 3.2.2.4</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If the group met this “standing” requirement, the Expert would hear the rest of their arguments, and the Community had to show:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Substantial Opposition</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> – The objector must
prove substantial opposition within the community it has identified itself as representing. A panel could balance a number of factors to determine whether there is substantial opposition, including but not limited to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Number of expressions of opposition relative to the composition of the community;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• The representative nature of entities expressing opposition;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Level of recognized stature or weight among sources of opposition;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Distribution or diversity among sources of expressions of opposition, including:</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Membership of community</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Historical defense of the community in other contexts; and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Costs incurred by objector in expressing opposition, including other channels the objector may have used to convey opposition.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If some opposition within the community is determined, but it does not meet the standard of substantial opposition, the objection will fail.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="">
</span><span style=""> </span><i style="">Applicant Guidebook 3.5.4</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">And
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Targeting</span></i></b><i style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> –
</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The objector must prove a strong association between the applied-for gTLD string and the community represented by the objector. Factors that could be balanced by a panel to determine
this include but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Statements contained in application;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Other public statements by the applicant;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Associations by the public.
<i style="">Applicant Guidebook 3.5.4</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">And
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Detriment</span></i></b><i style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> –
</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The objector must prove that the application creates a likelihood of material detriment to the rights or legitimate interests of a significant portion of the community to which the
string may be explicitly or implicitly targeted. An allegation of detriment that consists only of the applicant being delegated the string instead of the objector will not be sufficient for a finding of material detriment. Factors that could be used by a panel
in making this determination include but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Nature and extent of damage to the reputation of the community represented by the objector that would result from the applicant’s operation of
the applied-for gTLD string;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Evidence that the applicant is not acting or does not intend to act in accordance with the interests of the community or of users more widely,
including evidence that the applicant has not proposed or does not intend to institute effective security protection for user interests;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Interference with the core activities of the community that would result from the applicant’s operation of the applied-for gTLD string;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Dependence of the community represented by the objector on the DNS for its core activities;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Nature and extent of concrete or economic damage to the community represented by the objector that would result from the applicant’s operation
of the applied-for gTLD string; and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Level of certainty that alleged detrimental outcomes would occur.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><i style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Applicant Guidebook 3.5.4</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p>
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3.2.1 Grounds for Objection, gTLD Applicant Guidebook, Module 3, <a href="https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/objection-procedures-04jun12-en.pdf" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">
https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/objection-procedures-04jun12-en.pdf</a></span></p>
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ICC: ICANN New gTLD Dispute Resolution, <a href="https://iccwbo.org/dispute-resolution-services/icann-gtld-process/expert-determinations/" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">
https://iccwbo.org/dispute-resolution-services/icann-gtld-process/expert-determinations/</a>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt">New gTLD Applicant Guidebook 4 June 2012, Module 3 Objection Procedures,
<a href="https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">
https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb</a></span></p>
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