RE: [gnso-pro-wg] Online polling results: summary

["Griffin, Lance" <Lance.Griffin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I had understood the OECD did a study on this. 

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Subject: Re: [gnso-pro-wg] Online polling results: summary

Kelly

I wasn't making any point.  I was very interested in the polling results
because it wasn't what I suspected.

My supplementary point is that we need proper hard data to improve any
future policy making.

Can you help with hard stats?

We can then compare this with the cost of running sunrise-like
mechanisms?  And we can also do some subjective/objective analysis of
the impact on end-users.

Liz
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Liz Williams
Senior Policy Counselor
ICANN - Brussels
+32 2 234 7874 tel
+32 2 234 7848 fax
+32 497 07 4243 mob




On 09 May 2007, at 17:10, Smith, Kelly W wrote:

> All,
>
> I will have to join today's call late, but want to respond to Liz's
> point about the relatively low level of defensive registrations as a
> percentage of domain name portfolios, and the cost impact of defensive
> registrations.
>
> Even if a rights holder has defensive registrations as a low  
> percentage
> of the names in its portfolio, the associated cost may be quite high.
> Taking Intel as an example, the costs set aside for sunrise
> registrations for new TLDs introduced each year reflects a higher
> percentage of the annual budget than you might infer from the  
> relatively
> low percentage of defensive registrations in the overall  
> portfolio.  The
> cost for a single defensive registration (the registry cost plus the
> cost I am charged by a domain name management vendor to manage the
> application process) can be in the thousands of dollars.  The cost
> impact of defensive registrations is high when you look at the initial
> cost relative to other registrations.
>
> Kelly
>
> Kelly W. Smith
> Senior Attorney
> Trademarks & Brands
> Intel Corporation
> Phone:  (408) 765-1604
> Facsimile:  (408) 765-6071
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gnso-pro-wg@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-pro-wg@xxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Liz Williams
> Sent: May 09, 2007 1:00 AM
> To: gnso-pro-wg@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [gnso-pro-wg] Online polling results: summary
>
> Colleagues
>
> Ahead of tonight's meeting, please review this link to the poll
> results.  http://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults? 
> code=umTLyTqHJjKfWqTxYwzL
>
> I am currently verifying some of the 41 respondents  to ensure the
> veracity of the responses.  The following caveats apply to the
> summary -- the 43 responses (41 online and 2 offline) is not a
> statistically significant sample of a defined group; the
> questionnaire was designed to elicit top line summary responses to a
> wide range of questions; no special preparation was made for the
> summary to follow robust survey methodology.
>
>
> Summary -- Section I
>
> More than half identified themselves as rights owner representatives
> or IPR owners; only 5 identified themselves as registrars or  
> registries
>
> Note in question 6  that there is an almost even split between an IP
> claim and the use of sunrise registrations.
>
> Note that in question 7 the rights people sought to protect.
>
> Note in question 14 the even spilt between those respondents who
> owned or didn't own defensive registrations
>
> Of particular interest is the section on defensive registrations --
> note the low levels of defensive registrations as a percentage of
> domain name portfolios
>
> [[I did a random selection of the word "rainyweather" (because it's
> raining in Brussels today) on the MelbourneIT (because that came into
> my head first) website across info, .co.nz, .eu, .com.au, .org
> and .biz.  The prices of a one year registration are, for most of the
> TLDs, about $35 per year on that site.  It would be helpful to have
> some actual numbers on costs of registrations for a portfolio of
> registrations to see the cost impact of defensive registrations.]]
>
> Summary -- Section II
>
> Note the level of implementation budget expenditure on sunrise
> mechanisms and the other responses in that section which do not
> include many registrars and registries.
>
> Speak to you all on 9 May to resolve how to represent the materials
> in the Report.  I haven't seen any correspondence on proposed
> guidelines as yet.
>
> Liz
> .....................................................
>
> Liz Williams
> Senior Policy Counselor
> ICANN - Brussels
> +32 2 234 7874 tel
> +32 2 234 7848 fax
> +32 497 07 4243 mob