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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Constantia","serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Constantia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Constantia","serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Constantia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Constantia","serif";color:#1F497D'>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’.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Constantia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Constantia","serif";color:#1F497D'>NCUC’s comments can be found here: <a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/newgtlds-defensive-applications/pdflhxpYggWY7.pdf">http://forum.icann.org/lists/newgtlds-defensive-applications/pdflhxpYggWY7.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Constantia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Constantia","serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Constantia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Constantia","serif";color:#1F497D'>KK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Constantia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Senior Lecturer,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Director of Postgraduate Instructional Courses<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Director of LLM Information Technology and Telecommunications Law<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>University of Strathclyde,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>The Law School,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Graham Hills building, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>50 George Street, Glasgow G1 1BA <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>tel: +44 (0)141 548 4306<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="http://www.routledgemedia.com/books/The-Current-State-of-Domain-Name-Regulation-isbn9780415477765"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.routledgemedia.com/books/The-Current-State-of-Domain-Name-Regulation-isbn9780415477765</span></a></span><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Selected publications: <a href="http://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=501038"><span style='color:blue'>http://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=501038</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Website: <a href="http://www.komaitis.org"><span style='color:blue'>www.komaitis.org</span></a></span><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>