Dear Mrs. Blanche Petre,
Netbay,
the applicant to be the registry for the .FIN domain, and its shareholders wish to
respond to the objection by SWIFT:
As stated in response to another comment,
the AMB is acting as a “starter” for the .FIN domain. The AMB will not be the association
that will establish the conditions and the rules under which second level names will
be registered in .FIN. The AMB realized that the extremely short time frame for
the preparation of applications for new top level domains precluded the immediate
creation of a globally representative sponsoring organization. The AMB acts as initial
sponsoring organization in accordance with its application, and, as indicated in
its application, it will take steps promptly to contribute to the establishment of
the .FIN Sponsoring Organization, as a globally representative organization that
will represent equitably all the components of the financial sector (e.g., by type
of business and geographically).
The AMB strongly favors a situation in which professional
organizations, such as SWIFT (for banks) and other organizations (for insurance
companies and other components of the financial world), would participate actively
in the foundation and the management of the Financial Internet Domain Association.
As
mentionned in the application, this Sponsoring Organization will be a not for profit
organization. The administrative and technical services for registration will be
handled by Netbay ( the Registry). The profit that will derive from the operation
will represent a fair remuneration of the invested capital given the business risks
involved.
Regards
Patricia Jutheau-Husson
Chairman of Netbay
(Monaco)
Patricia Jutheau-Husson
Chairman of Eurafnet (Luxembourg)
Siegfried
Langenbach
Chairman of CSL(Germany)