[gnso-pro-wg] Statement of Interest

["Mike Rodenbaugh" <mxr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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! offers scores of different services to businesses and users,
linked from our Everything Yahoo! page
(http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/family/more/), and from our Yahoo!

International page (http://world.yahoo.com <http://world.yahoo.com/> ) .
Yahoo! resells domain name registration services via Yahoo! Small
Business, as one feature of many communication, marketing and merchant
solutions we offer to businesses (http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com
<http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/> ).

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.

 

Yahoo! is interested in release of reserved, single-letter names, as set
forth in our letter to the ICANN Board dated 6 December, 2005

(http://www.icann.org/correspondence/filo-to-icann-12dec05.pdf) and
subsequent public comments in the PDP regarding existing registry
contracts.

 

Mike Rodenbaugh

Sr. Legal Director

Yahoo! Inc.

 

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