Trademark Protection and new gTLDs

["Keenan, Amy" <Amy.Keenan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At WellPoint, we have approximately 34 million people in our branded health 
plans, and approximately 65 million people served through our subsidiaries. As 
an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, 
WellPoint serves members as the Blue Cross licensee for California; the Blue 
Cross and Blue Shield licensee for Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, 
Kentucky, Maine, Missouri (excluding 30 counties in the Kansas City area), 
Nevada, New Hampshire, New York (as the Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in 10 
New York City metropolitan and surrounding counties and as the Blue Cross or 
Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in selected upstate counties only), Ohio, 
Virginia (excluding the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.), and 
Wisconsin. In a majority of these service areas, WellPoint's plans do business 
as Anthem Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Blue Cross and Blue 
Shield of Georgia and Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, or Empire Blue Cross (in 
the New York service areas). WellPoint also serves customers across the country 
through our UniCare subsidiary and in certain California, Arizona and Nevada 
markets through our CareMore subsidiary. Our 1-800 CONTACTS, Inc. subsidiary 
offers customers online sales of contact lenses, eyeglasses and other ocular 
products.  Additional information about WellPoint is available at 
www.wellpoint.com<http://www.wellpoint.com>.


As a brand owner, WellPoint supports the adoption of BOTH the "Strawman 
Solution" & the Limited Preventative Registration proposals as necessary 
implementation measures for protecting Internet users and third-party 
intellectual property rights. We believe  these enhancements should be 
implemented so ICANN's underlying new gTLD policy of Protecting the Rights of 
Others can be achieved - given the breadth, scale and scope of the proposed 
expansion of the Domain Name System.



Thank you,

Amy Keenan - WellPoint Legal Counsel


Amy Keenan  │Legal Counsel │ WellPoint, Inc.│233 S. Wacker Dr. │Chicago, IL 
60606 │P 312.234.8090
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