fyi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liz Williams" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> 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 > ..................................................... > > Liz Williams > Senior Policy Counselor > ICANN - Brussels > +32 2 234 7874 tel > +32 2 234 7848 fax > +32 497 07 4243 mob > > > > >