[NCUC-EC] Domain Name Rights Coalition

[Renata Aquino Ribeiro]

Hi Michael

Thank you for sending us the news and best of luck to you and Kathy on the
new endeavor, count on your colleagues always
🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 1:26 PM, Michael Karanicolas <mkaranicolas at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi fellow EC-ers,
>
> Hope you're keeping well. Just wanted to drop you a line to let you know
> that Kathy and I have launched a new NGO today - the Domain Name Rights
> Coalition - which will be a principle avenue for our engagement with ICANN
> going forward.
>
> I'm copying our press release below - would very much appreciate any help
> to spread the word, particularly via our Facebook
> <https://www.facebook.com/DomainRights/> and Twitter
> <https://twitter.com/DomainRights> pages.
>
> Best,
>
> Michael
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> *26 February 2018 – for immediate release*
>
>
>
> *The Domain Name Rights Coalition: Working for fair, balanced and
> principled approaches to Internet Governance*
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.  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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> *“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.*  -- Kathy
> Kleiman, Co-Founder and President, DNRC.
>
>
>
> *“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.” *-- Michael Karanicolas, Director of
> Policy, DNRC.
>
>
>
> 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 www.dnrc.tech/ and
> follow us on Twitter at @DomainRights and Facebook at www.facebook.com/
> DomainRights.
>
>
>
> *For further information, please contact:*
>
>
>
> Kathy Kleiman, President
>
> Domain Name Rights Coalition
>
> Email: kathy at dnrc.tech
>
> Twitter: @DomainRights and @KleimK
>
>
>
> Michael Karanicolas, Policy Director
>
> Domain Name Rights Coalition
>
> Email: michael at dnrc.tech
>
> Twitter: @DomainRights and @M_Karanicolas
>
>
>
> **
>
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