<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519760520129_63987"><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519760520129_63763"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519760520129_64294">Thank you Michael, and congratulations to you, to Kathy and all the DNRC team on the launch. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519760520129_64296">I think this is a great initiative, particularly in this time when the impact of GDPR on the DNS industry is being debated all over. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519760520129_64597">I idea of Registrants Education (and the others too) is great. BTW, what is the target group - gTLD registrants, or ccTLD registrants or both. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519760520129_65410"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519760520129_65817">Also, DNRC.ngo would be a good domain name for this NGO may be??</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519760520129_65993"><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Zakir<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519760520129_65579"><br></div><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519760520129_63767" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519760520129_63766"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519760520129_63765"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519760520129_63764"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519760520129_63790" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Michael Karanicolas <mkaranicolas@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> NCUC-discuss <ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, February 27, 2018 12:04 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [NCUC-DISCUSS] Domain Name Rights Coalition<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv3432246960"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:left;">Hi all!</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:left;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:left;">Just wanted to send out a brief note letting you know about a new NGO being launched by Kathy Kleiman and myself: the Domain Name Rights Coalition - which will be an avenue for our engagement with ICANN, and with the NCUC, going forward. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:left;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:left;">I'm copying our press release below - would very much appreciate any help to spread the word, particularly via our<span> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/DomainRights/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">Facebook</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/DomainRights" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">Twitter</a><span> </span>pages. And stay tuned to these pages for updates on our work on Internet governance and such.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:left;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:left;">Best wishes,</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:left;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:left;">Michael Karanicolas</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center;"><img src="cid:1PWg6kFVaDzucmBhyeCT" alt="Inline image 1" data-id="3ed1e5be-2875-64d7-deed-8bb3bdf2516e" width="469" height="38"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:left;"><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB">26 February 2018 – for immediate release</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;color:black;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:15.5pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);" lang="EN-GB">The Domain Name Rights Coalition: Working for fair, balanced and principled approaches to Internet Governance</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB">Today, a public interest group is reborn. Twenty years ago, at the start of the commercial Internet, a group of advocates came together to fight for the rights of registrants - for individuals, entrepreneurs and organizations who registered domain names and posted their ideas, concerns, products, and services online. The DNRC defended political parody, argued in support of protections for Internet Service Providers (then a new type of company), and worked to make the rules for the Internet fair and balanced for everyone. At that time, the Internet hosted only 70 million people.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB">Now, with over 3 billion people online, the need for registrant representatives is even more important. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been untethered from the US government, leaving its multistakeholder community as the ultimate guardians of a free and open Internet. With the rebirth of the Domain Name Rights Coalition, we resume our work on behalf of Internet users. The Domain Name Rights Coalition will be headed by Kathy Kleiman, one of the original founders, and Michael Karanicolas.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB">Kathy Kleiman is part of the group that founded ICANN. She is well-known for her passionate work seeking fairness and balance in Internet policies and served on the final drafting teams of both the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy and Uniform Rapid Suspension Policy.<span> <span> </span></span>Michael Karanicolas is a Canadian-based human rights advocate who has published extensively on a range of digital rights issues, and has experience at the highest levels advising governments, private sector entities, and intergovernmental organizations on how to bring their policies into line with international human rights standards. He currently serves as Co-Chair of ICANN's Cross-Community Working Party on Human Rights, and as the Rapporteur for the subgroup reworking ICANN’s transparency policies.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB">Both Michael and Kathy are leaders in the ICANN ecosystem, particularly through the Non-Commercial Users’ Constituency, which Kathy co-founded, and on whose Executive Committee Michael now serves.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB">“I am thrilled to see the Domain Name Rights Coalition reboot. We need experienced people helping to ensure that domain names – the street signs of the Internet – are fairly distributed and not arbitrarily revoked. The Domain Name Rights Coalition will once again be a home for education, participation, research and advocacy for users and registrants who are online today – and the millions who will come online tomorrow.</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span> <span> </span></span>-- Kathy Kleiman, Co-Founder and President, DNRC.<span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB">“The DNRC will fill a crucial void in the modern digital rights space, by providing a dedicated vehicle for programming aimed at advancing human rights in Internet governance. We look forward to engaging directly with academics, advocates, and other like-minded organizations, to collaborate on research, advocacy, and outreach. I am honoured to take up this role, and excited about the road ahead.”<span> </span></span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB">-- Michael Karanicolas, Director of Policy, DNRC.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB">DNRC is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization under US law and seeks the support of the Internet Community. To find out more about the DNRC and our principles, membership and donations, visit our website at<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.dnrc.tech/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(5,99,193);">www.dnrc.tech/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>and follow us on Twitter at @DomainRights and Facebook at<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/DomainRights" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);">www.facebook.com/DomainRights</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(45,92,165);" lang="EN-GB">For further information, please contact:</span></i></b><span style="font-size:15.5pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:15.5pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB">Kathy Kleiman, President<span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB">Domain Name Rights Coalition<span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB">Email:<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:kathy@dnrc.tech" target="_blank" href="mailto:kathy@dnrc.tech" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(5,99,193);">kathy@dnrc.tech</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-GB">Twitter: @DomainRights and @KleimK<span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3432246960MsoNormal" 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