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Username: Tex114Concho
Date/Time: Wed, October 25, 2000 at 3:04 PM GMT
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Subject: .co-op top level domain

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        On behalf of the 4,527 members of Concho Valley Electric Coop., Inc., I am writing to urge the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to approve the proposal for a .co-op top-level domain.  The National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) and Poptel are proposing .co-op with the full endorsement of the International Cooperative Alliance.

Concho Valley Electric Coop., Inc., is a member owned transmission and distribution cooperative located in central west Texas serving 10,303 meters.  Our service area is in 10 counties with an area of approximately 4,035 square miles.  Our member owners purchase over 151,000,000 kwh annually over our 3,708 miles of distribution lines.

As a rural, consumer-owned electric cooperative, Concho Valley Electric works hard to provide our members with the best services possible.  And we follow the International Cooperative Alliance cooperative principles, such as member ownership and control.  That makes our job more challenging than investor-owned businesses, but it has also earned us the trust of the people we serve.

As consumers become increasingly cynical about the constant ebb and flow of new and defunct e-businesses, it's critical that cooperative businesses have an opportunity to identify themselves to consumers and others who prefer to bo business with us.  While many cooperatives use .com and .org, neither accurately characterizes co-ops to Internet users.  Consumers need a way to find the businesses they trust on the Internet.  The .co-op TLD will help to that.

Though my cooperative provides electric service to predominantly rural consumers, co-ops operate in virtually all industries, in 100 countries, and in both rural and urban areas: there are 750,000 cooperatives worldwide with 725 million members.  As a result, the .co-op TLD will apply to a broad range of businesses across the globe.

I urge you to move quickly to approve .co-op.

Sincerely,
Alton E. Rollans
Executive Vice President\CEO


        
     
     
 

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