[NCUC-DISCUSS] Fwd: Results of the First New gTLD Auction | ICANN New gTLDs

[Avri Doria]

On 05-Jun-14 09:25, William Drake wrote:
> Economists love auctions and they do raise cash, but one wonders how
> suitable this procedure will be if we ever have contestation involving
> less well resourced applicants from developing countries, civil society,
> etc…
> 

deep pockets win.
communities lose

but no one in power at ICANN cares about communities

and if there had been applicants from developing countries or , they
would also lose

and no one in power at ICANN cares about developing economies.

avri


> Bill
> 
>> http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announcement-3-04jun14-en
>>
>>
>>   Results of the First New gTLD Auction
>>
>> On 4 June 2014 ICANN through its authorized auction services provider,
>> Power Auctions LLC <http://www.powerauctions.com/>, completed the
>> first auction to resolve a contention set for a new generic Top-level
>> Domain (gTLD) string. Contention sets are groups of applications for
>> identical or confusingly similar strings.
>> Two applicants, Afilias Limited and Beijing Tele-info Network
>> Technology Co., LTD. applied for the gTLD 信息, (xn--vuq861b), which
>> is a Chinese Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) for "information" or
>> "info." These two applicants were unable to resolve the contention set
>> between themselves, and thus proceeded to an auction, which is the
>> method of last resort to resolve string contentions as prescribed in
>> Module 4 of the Applicant Guidebook. Beijing Tele-info Network
>> Technology Co., LTD. prevailed in the auction for the winning price of
>> $600,000. Additional bidding information is available in the auction
>> report
>> <http://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/tlds/xn--vuq861b/xn--vuq861b-auction-results-04jun14-en.pdf>
>> [PDF, 225 KB]. Subject to payment of the Winning Price and meeting all
>> other criteria for eligibility, the winner will begin the contracting
>> process to sign a Registry Agreement to operate the 信息,
>> (xn--vuq861b) gTLD.
>> This was the first auction for the New gTLD program. Subsequent
>> auctions are scheduled
>> <http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/auctions/schedule-29may14-en.pdf>
>> [PDF, 306 KB] to occur on a monthly basis throughout 2014 and into
>> early 2015. The auction events are designed to accommodate resolving
>> multiple contention sets simultaneously.
>> For more information on Auctions visit
>> http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/auctions.
>> To view the current contention set status visit:
>> https://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/stringcontentionstatus
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> David A. Olive
>> Vice President, Policy Development Support
>> General Manager, ICANN Regional Headquarters –Istanbul
>> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
>>
>> Direct Line: +90.212.381.8727 
>> Mobile:       + 1. 202.341.3611
>> Email:  david.olive at icann.org <mailto:david.olive at icann.org>
>> www.icann.org <http://www.icann.org>
>> *
>> *
>>
> 
> ***********************************************
> William J. Drake
> International Fellow & Lecturer
>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, 
>   ICANN, www.ncuc.org <http://www.ncuc.org>
> william.drake at uzh.ch
> <mailto:william.drake at uzh.ch> (direct), wjdrake at gmail.com
> <mailto:wjdrake at gmail.com> (lists),
>   www.williamdrake.org <http://www.williamdrake.org>
> ***********************************************
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Ncuc-discuss mailing list
> Ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org
> http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-discuss
>