Dear all,

Just to give you the heads up – NCUC submitted its comment on the issue of defensive registrations for new gTLDs. Given the fact that the deadline for this was yesterday and I couldn’t draft these comments earlier, I couldn’t send them to the whole list for feedback. The NCUC EC authorized them so they were sent on behalf of the whole constituency.

For anyone who wants to endorse them, I suspect you can, although the deadline has passed. There are comments submitted from the likes of AT&T, Microsoft, Marques and Yahoo! who are indicating the need to go back to the IRT recommendation and its proposals. As you may recall, NCUC fought hard to make sure that the IRT and its intolerable expansion of rights would not go through and we succeeded by getting ICANN to endorse the STI. Now, certain interests want to go back to the IRT and the GPML and they are trying to do so through the excuse of ‘defensive registrations’.

NCUC’s comments can be found here: http://forum.icann.org/lists/newgtlds-defensive-applications/pdflhxpYggWY7.pdf

Thanks

Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,

Senior Lecturer,

Director of Postgraduate Instructional Courses

Director of LLM Information Technology and Telecommunications Law

University of Strathclyde,

The Law School,

Graham Hills building,

50 George Street, Glasgow G1 1BA

tel: +44 (0)141 548 4306

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