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From: "Liz Williams" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 9:00 AM
Subject: [gnso-pro-wg] Online polling results: summary


> Colleagues
> 
> Ahead of tonight's meeting, please review this link to the poll  
> results.  http://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=umTLyTqHJjKfWqTxYwzL
> 
> I am currently verifying some of the 41 respondents  to ensure the  
> veracity of the responses.  The following caveats apply to the  
> summary -- the 43 responses (41 online and 2 offline) is not a  
> statistically significant sample of a defined group; the  
> questionnaire was designed to elicit top line summary responses to a  
> wide range of questions; no special preparation was made for the  
> summary to follow robust survey methodology.
> 
> 
> Summary -- Section I
> 
> More than half identified themselves as rights owner representatives  
> or IPR owners; only 5 identified themselves as registrars or registries
> 
> Note in question 6  that there is an almost even split between an IP  
> claim and the use of sunrise registrations.
> 
> Note that in question 7 the rights people sought to protect.
> 
> Note in question 14 the even spilt between those respondents who  
> owned or didn't own defensive registrations
> 
> Of particular interest is the section on defensive registrations --  
> note the low levels of defensive registrations as a percentage of  
> domain name portfolios
> 
> [[I did a random selection of the word "rainyweather" (because it's  
> raining in Brussels today) on the MelbourneIT (because that came into  
> my head first) website across info, .co.nz, .eu, .com.au, .org  
> and .biz.  The prices of a one year registration are, for most of the  
> TLDs, about $35 per year on that site.  It would be helpful to have  
> some actual numbers on costs of registrations for a portfolio of  
> registrations to see the cost impact of defensive registrations.]]
> 
> Summary -- Section II
> 
> Note the level of implementation budget expenditure on sunrise  
> mechanisms and the other responses in that section which do not  
> include many registrars and registries.
> 
> Speak to you all on 9 May to resolve how to represent the materials  
> in the Report.  I haven't seen any correspondence on proposed  
> guidelines as yet.
> 
> Liz
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> 
> Liz Williams
> Senior Policy Counselor
> ICANN - Brussels
> +32 2 234 7874 tel
> +32 2 234 7848 fax
> +32 497 07 4243 mob
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