RE: [gnso-dt-wg] Domin tasting ad hoc group statements of interest - 22 August 2007

[Tim Ruiz <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am Vice President of Corporate Development and Policy for The Go Daddy
Group, Inc. The Go Daddy Group companies include eight ICANN accredited
registrars including GoDaddy.com, Inc.

GoDaddy.com is a member of the Registrars Constituency of the GNSO and I
am its Registered Representative.

GoDaddy.com is a member of the dotMOBI Advisory Group (MAG). I represent
GoDaddy.com on the MAG. I am on the MAG Steering Committee and have been
appointed by the Steering Committee to represent the MAG on dotMOBI
Policy Advisory Board (PAB). The MAG and PAB, among other activities,
are involved in recommending policy to mTLD, the dotMOBI Registry
Operator.

GoDaddy.com is also a member of the United States Council for
International Business (USCIB). The USCIB is a member of the Business
Constituency of the GNSO. Our primary interest in the USCIB is the DNS
and Internet Identifiers Working Group.

GoDaddy.com recently acquired a small interest in Afilias Limited for
investment purposes. GoDaddy.com and Afilias USA recently formed a joint
venture dba Alliance Registry, in which Afilias USA is the managing 
member and assumes authority and responsibility for all day-to-day 
registry operations.

GoDaddy.com has been an outspoken critic of domain tasting due to its 
adverse affects on potential registrants and our concern that such 
affects will harm the reputation of and further erode consumer
confidence 
in our industry.


Tim Ruiz
GoDaddy.com


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Subject: [gnso-dt-wg] Domin tasting ad hoc group statements of interest
- 22 August 2007
From: "GNSO.SECRETARIAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, August 22, 2007 11:33 am
To: gnso-dt-wg@xxxxxxxxx

Dear All,

Please see the statments of interest for the domain tasting ad hoc 
participants and observers. Please let me have your updates by COB on 
Friday 24 August 2007.

Sophia Bekele
Patrick Cain
Edmon Chung
Paul Diaz
Avri Doria
Chuck Gomes
Alan Greenberg
Caroline Greer
Seth Jacoby
Adrian Kinderis
David Maher
Margie Milam
Ram Mohan
Jon Nevett
Mike Rodenbaugh
Kristina Rosette
Tim Ruiz
Greg Ruth
Jay Westerdal

In addition, the following participants have asked to subscribe to the 
group, and need to send updated statements of interest, please by COB on

Friday 24 August 2007.
CBUC
Marilyn Cade
Sarah Deutsch
Phil Lodico
Mike O'Connor

IPC
David Steele
Laura Mather

NCUC
Danny Younger

Registar C
Francesco Cetraro
Mason Cole
Robert Connelly
Jeff Eckhaus
Jothan Frakes
Seth Jacoby
John Kane
Peter Lamson
Bill Mushkin
Paul Stahura
Peter Stevenson
Ricardo Vaz Monteiro

gTLD Registry C
Jeff Neuman

Observers
Rod Rasmussen - APWG

Thank you very much.
Kind regards,
Glen

Statement of Interest

SOPHIA BEKELE - Nominating Committee appointee to the GNSO Council

I represent a California based, privately held company, CBS Enterprise 
Group, which is engaged in international business. As part of its 
portfolio of services, the company provides systems integration services

through CBS International, which delivers domain registration, web 
hosting and email services to end users via a reseller, agreement with 
registrars. Less than 10% of CBS's business is derived from these
services.

In my personal capacity, I do not have any of my moneys, invested in 
companies that are in the registrar businesses. I do not believe that 
any activities of the Council or ICANN could have a material effect on 
the work I do at CBS International.

PAT CAIN - observer
1. Current occupation, employer and position.

I am a research fellow and evangelist with the APWG 
(www.antiphishing.org). The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) is the 
global pan-industrial and law enforcement association focused on 
eliminating the fraud and identity theft that result from phishing, 
pharming and email spoofing of all types.

The APWG acts as a clearinghouse for best-practices relating to 
deterring online fraud and crime, and collects, aggregates, and 
distributes discovered fraudulent domain and URL data to members, 
research partners, law enforcement, and filtering and anti-virus vendors

to prevent.

I also own a small network security consulting company using my 
multi-year experiences as an ISP security officer to the benefit of my 
customers.

2. Type of work performed in 1 above.

My work involves technical interactions with the APWG's data repository,

blind contact system, and investigative partners. I am also part of the 
APWG public education group that presents technical and statistical data

to other parties and public forums.

3. Financial ownership or management leadership of registries, 
registrars or other firms that are interested parties in Whois.

None.

4. Nature of your interest in Whois.

Our researchers maintain that fraudulent domains collect most of their 
victims within the first four or five hours of operation. Our mission 
includes identifying fraudulent domains to be included in browser and 
mail-relay filter lists and working to get the fraudulent domain 
disabled as quickly as possible to reduce the number of phishing 
victims. Fraudulent contact data in a domain record makes this quite 
hard. Hiding domain and contact data so it is harder to quickly identify

suspicious URLs in a domain
just creates more victims and generates more false positives.


EDMON CHUNG - gTLD Registries Constituency

I am currently serving as the CEO for DotAsia Organisation Ltd. DotAsia 
is the registry operator and sponsor for the ICANN Sponsored gTLD 
".ASIA". DotAsia is a not-for-profit membership based organization 
incorporated in Hong Kong. The current members of DotAsia includes 20 
ccTLDs (".AF", ".BT", ".CN", ".ID", ".IN", ".IR", ".JP", ".KH", ".KR", 
".KZ", ".MN", ".MO", ".NU", ".NZ", ".PH", ".SG", ".TJ", ".TW", ".UZ" and

".VN") in the Asia community and 3 regional organisations: APNIC, APNG 
and PAN. APNIC is an RIR in the ICANN ASO.

Prior to joining DotAsia, I was the Creative Director of Afilias Ltd. 
Afilias is the registry operator for the ICANN gTLD ".INFO". Afilias 
also provides registry services to other ICANN gTLDs, including ".ORG", 
".AERO" and ".MOBI", as well as other ccTLDs including ".IN", ".AG", 
".GI", ".SC", ".HN", ".BZ", ".VC", ".MN", ".LA", and ".SG".

PAUL DIAZ - Registrar

I am a full-time employee of Network Solutions, LLC where I currently
serve as the Policy & Ethics Manager. Network Solutions is an
ICANN-accredited registrar offering gTLD and ccTLD domain name
registration and Web presence services to our small business customers.
Network Solutions also has two affiliated, ICANN-accredited registrars,
NameSecure L.L.C. and TLDS L.L.C d/b/a SRSplus. I am not in possession
of any registry sensitive or proprietary information. To the best of my
knowledge, I have no ownership interest in any entity that currently has
business before the GNSO or ICANN.
Further to my previous Statement of Interest, my daily responsibilities
include handling ICANN-related issues, corporate advocacy at the local,
state and federal levels, and administering Network Solutions' business
ethics program. I have no ownership interest in Network Solutions or
its affiliated registrars, nor in any current registry operator.
Network Solutions and its affiliated registrars intend to offer IDN
registration services in the future.

AVRI DORIA - Nominating Committee appointee to the GNSO Council

I am an independent research consultant and an adjunct professor at Lule

University of Technology in Sweden. I also have a recurring contract 
with the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) as a consultant to its 
secretariat. I have no employment, contract, financial interest, share 
ownership or any other business relationship with ICANN, registries or 
registrars except as a registrant of several domain names.

As part of my volunteer activities I give advice to various 
representatives of indigenous nomadic and semi-nomadic populations on 
Internet topics which include the possibility of obtaining an TLD. I am 
currently involved in activities that may lead to the creation of an non

governmental organization (NGO) whose primary purpose would be to assist

indigenous groups as well as populations from the less developed 
nations, NGOs active in representing the needs of these populations, and

other advocacy groups, in obtaining a presence on the Internet. These 
activities may involve providing assistance in obtaining a TLD, 
including assistance in raising the necessary funding for a TLD, when 
that is an appropriate solution to their goals.

http://psg.com/~avri/icann-stmt-interest.html

CHUCK GOMES - gTLD Registries Constituency

I am Vice President of Policy and Compliance for VeriSign, Inc. VeriSign

is the registry operator for the .com and the .net gTLDs and also 
provides backend registry services in support of Global Name Registry 
for the .name gTLD and Employ Media for the .jobs gTLD. VeriSign is also

the registry operator for two ccTLDs, .cc for the Cocos and Keelings 
Islands and .tv for Tuvalu.

As an employee who supports VeriSign�s naming services business, I do 
often have access to Registry Sensitive information including 
information about registrars. With regard to both our gTLD and ccTLD 
registration services businesses as well as other VeriSign businesses, 
our customers and business associates have interests in various ICANN 
policy issues and may be members of other GNSO constituencies and/or 
supporting organizations.

In addition to registry agreements with ICANN for .com and .net, 
VeriSign also has obligations to the U.S. Department of Commerce through

a cooperative agreement that was initiated in 1993 and has been amended 
many times since then. Those obligations include providing the A and J 
root servers as well as support to ICANN in implementing changes in the 
root zone file. As such, VeriSign is a member of the DNS Root Server 
System Advisory Committee and also works closely with IANA staff in the 
processing of root zone changes.

As a representative elected to the GNSO Council by the unsponsored gTLD 
registry members of the gTLD Registry Constituency (RyC), I am required 
by the Constituency�s Articles of Operation to represent the views of 
those members and the full Constituency as applicable, not my own or 
VeriSign�s. In that regard, I will endeavor to always qualify any 
personal statements as such and will follow-up with the RyC to obtain 
their position.

I own shares of VeriSign stock and hold options to purchase additional 
shares, but the amount of shares I currently own plus the potential 
shares I could possibly own if I exercised all options is a miniscule 
number relative to the total number of VeriSign shares.

ALAN GREENBERG - At Large Advisory Committee liaison to the GNSO Council

Other than my ALAC and GNSO participation, I have neither a business 
relationship nor substantive any involvement with either ICANN or 
organizations significantly affected by decisions or recommendations 
made by ICANN or its constituent bodies.

CAROLINE GREER - gTLD Registries Constituency

I am Policy Director for mTLD Ltd, the Registry responsible for the
.mobi TLD. I participate in the gTLD Registry Constituency.

dotMobi is the first top level domain dedicated to delivering the
internet to the mobile phone. mTLD is sponsored by a consortium of
thirteen companies, two of which (Nokia and Telefónica) are members of
ICANN's Business Constituency. dotMobi signed its contract with ICANN in
July 2005 and began operations in May 2006.

dotMobi is required to reserve certain names and these reserved names
are identified in Appendix 6 of the .mobi Agreement. dotMobi also has
'Premium Names' listed in its Product List (Appendix S of the
Agreement). These names are commonly used words and phrases that are
allocated on an other than first-come-first-served basis and therefore
must first be reserved by the Registry and held back from general
allocation. dotMobi will allocate such names using auction and Request
for Proposals ('RFP') processes, the latter of which centers on content
suggestions from the market. The purpose of the RFP process in
particular is to stimulate growth of the mobile internet market and help
deliver new features and services to the mobile community.


SETH JACOBY - Registrar
February 1, 2007

I am the Vice President of Search and Navigation for VendareNetblue
which is the parent company of Basic Fusion, Inc. Basic Fusion is an
ICANN accredited registrar and a member of the ICANN Registrars
Constituency. VendareNetblue actively acquires strategic domain names,
and in the event certain reserved domain names are released,
VendareNetblue may have an interest in acquiring such names.

VendareNetblue is also interested in how the potential sale of single
letter domain names may be used to fund ICANN's operations, and as a
result, reduce the financial burden placed on registrars.


ADRIAN KINDERIS - Registrar Constituency

I am Managing Director of AusRegistry Group Pty Ltd a company based in 
Melbourne, Australia and an ICANN accredited Registrar and member of the

Registrar Constituency

The AusRegistry Group of companies includes, AusRegistry Pty Ltd, the 
Registry Services provider for all second level .au domain names and 
AusRegistry International Pty Ltd, a Registry Consultancy Service.

I hold the position of Director in all companies above.

None of the companies within the AusRegistry Group are affiliated with 
any gTLD Registry operator with the exception of AusRegistry Pty Ltd of 
which Afilias has a minority shareholding.

I am not in possession of any gTLD Registry proprietary or sensitive 
information, nor have I ever been. I am not an officer, director, 
consultant, or employee of any other member of this Constituency or any 
other ICANN Constituency.

DAVID W. MAHER - gTLD Registry constituency

1. I am Senior Vice President - Law and Policy of Public Interest 
Registry (PIR), a nonprofit corporation responsible for management of 
the registry of the .ORG top level domain. From 1999 until 2002, I was 
Vice President - Public Policy of the Internet Society. In 2002, I 
became founding Chairman of the Board of Public Interest Registry, and 
served in that capacity until August, 2004. I am currently Chair of the 
Registry Constituency of the GNSO.
I am a member of the Bar of New York, Illinois and Wisconsin and a 
registered patent attorney with the US Patent and Trademark Office. I am

a director of the Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern 
Illinois, Inc. I am a retired partner of the law firm, Sonnenschein Nath

& Rosenthal in the US, and have no connection at this time with any of 
its present or former clients. I am a member of the WIPO Arbitration & 
Mediation Center Panel of Neutrals.
I am a member of the Visiting Committee to the Divinity School at the 
University of Chicago, a member of the American Law Institute and 
various other professional organizations, but have no policy making 
responsibilities in any of those organizations.
2. As Senior Vice President - Law & Policy, I advise PIR on legal and 
policy issues and perform other executive functions.
3. Senior Vice President - Law and Policy of Public Interest Registry 
(PIR), a nonprofit corporation responsible for management of the 
registry of the .ORG top level domain. PIR is required by its contract 
with ICANN to maintain a WHOIS function for the registry.
4. PIR is committed to the principle that some means must be found to 
protect the privacy of personal data in WHOIS, while recognizing that 
law enforcement agencies and some other bodies have a legitimate 
interest in access to the data.

MARGIE MILAM - Registrar

I am the Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of 
MarkMonitor, Inc., an ICANN accredited registrar based in Boise 
Idaho,and am responsible for MarkMonitor's ICANN policy initiatives. 
MarkMonitor is the leading corporate domain registrar focusing primarily
on managing the large and complex global domain portfolios of 
multinational corporations. MarkMonitor provides additional value added 
services to its corporate clientele, such as online brand protection and

fraud prevention services. MarkMonitor is an active user of WHOIS 
information for the purposes of (i) its registrar related business, (ii)

its brand protection reports as a service provider to entities seeking 
to protect against online infringement, and (iii) its anti-phishing 
services as a service provider to financial institutions and 
governmental agencies in detecting phishing attacks, identifying the 
fraudsters, and providing take down services.
My primary interest in working with this group is to provide information

regarding how WHOIS is legitimately used by service providers, 
registrars and intellectual property interests, and to assist in the
development of policy that can accommodate these interests as well as 
privacy concerns. MarkMonitor is a member of INTA, IACC, Anti-Phishing 
Working Group, and LES. I currently serve as MarkMonitor's 
representative on the ICANN Registrar Constituency, and serve on the 
Internet Committee of IACC and the INTA Services Committee. MarkMonitor 
is also a member of the
Intellectual Property Constituency. I am also a frequent speaker on 
intellectual property issues, and have coordinated and participated in 
seminars on WHOIS related issues.
Prior to joining MarkMonitor, I was a partner with the Los Angeles 
global law firm, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitman, representing many 
international clients with respect to general corporate and intellectual
property issues.


RAM MOHAN - gTLD registries c.
I manage business operations, strategy and technology for Afilias 
Limited, the ICANN designated registry operator of the .INFO gTLD.

Afilias is the registry services provider for several gTLD, sTLD and 
ccTLD registries, including .ORG, .MOBI, .ASIA and .AERO.

I own shares in several registrars and registries. In do not own a 
material number of shares in any instance, and am not a controlling 
shareholder or board member.

Afilias is keenly interested in IDNs, has a commercial interest in the 
launch of IDNs, and intends to apply for IDN TLDs.

JON NEVETT - Registrar
February 1, 2007

I am Vice President of Network Solutions, LLC, responsible for policy,
government affairs, and business ethics. Network Solutions includes
three ICANN accredited registrars, each of which may benefit from the
possible release and registration of reserved names. The benefit, if
any, will depend largely on the allocation process if the release of
such names is approved.

Network Solutions is a member of the Registrar Constituency ("RC") of
the GNSO. In May 2006, I was elected Chair of the RC. While I was not
elected by the RC to serve on this Working Group, I am on the Executive
Committee of the RC and have an obligation to present and discuss
various RC members' views to the Working Group as they are made known to
me.

Network Solutions also is a member of the United States Council for
International Business (USCIB). The USCIB is a member of the Business
Constituency of the GNSO. Our primary interest in the USCIB is the DNS
and Internet Identifiers Working Group, of which I am Co-Chair. The
USCIB includes members who will have an interest in the allocation of
reserved names at the second level.

The primary interest of Network Solutions, and I believe other
registrars within the RC, is to examine how the potential release of
single-letter second-level domain names might be used to provide funding
to ICANN and reduce the funding burden on registrars. There are many
other issues that this Working Group has been asked to consider. I have
no pre-conceived opinions on those issues.


MIKE RODENBAUGH - Commercial and Business Users Constituency

I am employed full-time by Yahoo! Inc., as Senior Legal Director. I have

been elected to the GNSO Council by the Commercial and Business Users 
Constituency.

Yahoo! is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked

Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo!'s mission is to connect people 
to their passions, their communities, and the world's knowledge. I 
engage ICANN issues from Yahoo!'s perspective as a premier online brand 
and diversified business, highly valuing the perspectives of our 
customers, partners and users.

Yahoo! has hundreds of thousands of online business customers and 
partners which advertise and provide services to our global audience.We 
are interested in seeing all of these businesses succeed and grow.These 
businesses work with Yahoo! because we have earned one of the world's 
largest audiences, requiring that the 'user perspective' remain 
extremely important to us always. And, of course Yahoo! is a famous 
brand that is extremely challenging to protect and enforce online, 
worldwide.

I believe businesses of all types and sizes share our interest in the 
rapid growth of internet commerce, balanced with fair protection of 
existing property interests. I look forward to working with the Council 
to address the many serious issues that existing businesses encounter as

a result of ICANN policy.

KRISTINA ROSETTE - Intellectual Property Interests Constituency

I am employed as a Special Counsel by Covington & Burling LLP 
Covington), a general practice law firm with over 600 lawyers in five 
offices in three countries. I am resident in Covingto's Washington, DC 
office and am a member of the District of Columbia bar. I specialize in 
Internet and trademark matters, and represent trademark owner clients in

connection with such matters. Among my responsibilities, I develop and 
implement offensive and defensive domain name registration, Internet 
monitoring, and enforcement strategies; reclaim domain names through 
negotiation, arbitration (under the UDRP, .biz STOP, and .mobi Sunrise 
Challenge policies, thus far), and litigation; and advise clients on the

use of keywords and sponsored links. In connection with advising firm 
clients of generally noteworthy trademark- or Internet-related 
developments, I have also provided information and updates on domain 
name system developments (e.g., posting of reports for public comment, 
announcements of new policies such as the Domain Name Transfer Policy, 
.eu Sunrise requirements). All such communications have been, and will 
continue to be, based solely on publicly available information and 
documents. From time to time, I register or acquire in my own name 
domain names for firm clients. I am currently the registrant of several 
domain names, both on behalf of firm clients and in an individual 
capacity. From time to time and as circumstances warrant, I have 
completed and submitted Whois Data Problem Reports on behalf of firm 
clients. Since 2004, I have been a member of the Registration Practice 
and DNS Administration Subcommittee of the International Trademark 
Association's Internet Committee.

I have determined that Covington does not represent ICANN and does not 
represent any clients in matters in which ICANN is an adverse party. 
Covington did represent the International Cooperative Alliance in 
connection with the formation and establishment of DotCooperation LLC, 
the .coop registry operator, but that matter has been closed for some 
time. I have also determined that Covington neither represents any gTLD 
or sTLD registry operator in matters relating to its capacity as a 
registry operator nor represents any client in matters adverse to such 
registry operators as registry operators. Based on the responses to my 
inquiries, Covington does not represent any ccTLD registry operator in 
its capacity as a registry operator nor does it represent any client in 
matters adverse to any ccTLD registry operators as registry operators. 
To the best of my knowledge, Covington does not represent any 
ICANN-accredited registrar in its capacity as a registrar nor does it 
represent any firm client in a matter adverse to a registrar as 
registrar. From time to time, Covington has represented firm clients in 
intellectual property matters adverse to registrars, and it is likely to

do so periodically in the future. I have not been involved in such 
matters. It is possible that a firm client is an ICANN-accredited 
registrar, but, if so, Covington does not represent it in such matters.

TIM RUIZ - Registrar
January 29, 2007

I am Vice President of Corporate Development and Policy for The Go Daddy
Group, Inc. The Go Daddy Group companies include eight ICANN accredited
registrars, each of which may benefit from the possible release and
registration of reserved names. The benefit, if any, will depend largely
on the allocation process if the release of such names is approved.

GoDaddy.com, one of the Go Daddy Group registrars, is also in the
process of becoming a member of the dotMOBI Advisory Group (MAG). I will
represent GoDaddy.com on the MAG. The MAG, among other activities, is
involved in recommending policy to mTLD, the dotMOBI Registry Operator.
Such policy recommendations could involve issues around the release of
reserved names. I do not have and, to my knowledge, the MAG does not
have access to any registry proprietary information.

GoDaddy.com is a member of, and I am CTO and Vice Chair of the
Registrars' Constituency of the GNSO. While I was not elected by the
Constituency to serve on this Working Group, I am on the Executive
Committee of the Constituency and feel an obligation to present and
discuss various Constituency members' views to the Working Group as they
are made known to me.

GoDaddy.com is also a member of the United States Council for
International Business (USCIB). The USCIB is a member of the Business
Constituency of the GNSO. Our primary interest in the USCIB is the DNS
and Internet Identifiers Working Group. The USCIB and aforementioned
Working Group include members who will have an interest in the
allocation of reserved names at the second level.


GREG RUTH - ISPCP Constituency

I am a Senior Consultant for Verizon Business, a global communications, 
security and technology provider. My duties consist primarily of 
providing consulting services. As a multi-national organization, Verizon

Business has many customer and vendor relationships, and some of those 
relationships may include ICANN accredited registrars, registries as 
well as members of other GNSO constituencies. In the normal course of my

duties, I have no knowledge of which ICANN related organizations my 
company is contractually involved with. My position and responsibilities

in Verizon Business do not allow me any decision making power, personal 
involvement, responsibility or other interest in determining or carrying

out the contractual relationships in which my company enters. As a 
global network provider, my company's interest in ICANN is for the 
security and stability of the Internet. I do not have any relationships 
or duties outside my company that would involve any issues of interest 
to or conflict with ICANN, and my duties in the GNSO.

This statement of interest will be maintained at:

http://www.icannwiki.org/Greg_Ruth_-_statement_of_interest

JAY WESTERDAL - Registrar

1. Current occupation, employer and position.
I am the President and Chief Executive Counsel of Name Intelligence, 
Inc., located in Bellevue, Washington.

2. Type of work performed in 1 above.
I am responsible for corporate management and growth.

3. Financial ownership or management leadership of registries, 
registrars or other firms that are interested parties in Whois, and 4. 
Nature of your interest in Whois.
Name Intelligence is a domain name registrar. We also operate 
DomainTools.com, a Domain Information portal. As such, we have an 
interest in Whois issues.

Name Intelligence is a member of the Registrar Constituency (RC) of the 
GNSO. In May 2006, I was elected Secretary of the RC.