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

[Eranga Samararathna]

Hi,

Money should not be the last resort for resolution.

Eranga.


On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:

>
>
> 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,
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