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Date/Time: Wed, November 15, 2000 at 3:11 AM GMT
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Subject: PRESS CONFERENCE CLIP

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At a press conference held Friday, ICANN's staff emphasized that its  board of directors has the authority to overrule the staff's       recommendations and choose whatever domains it prefers. The       report was created by five ICANN staff members and eight outside     advisors.

"We followed the board's instructions in reviewing these proposals, but they have the ultimate authority to take action on this," says  ICANN president Mike Roberts.
                      
ICANN's board is expected to choose between 4 and 12 new          top-level domains next week, with names under these domains        becoming available in the second quarter of 2001.

ICANN observers criticized the report for failing to clarify the    technical and financial criteria used to whittle down the proposals.

"ICANN does not give a standard to which technical applications    should rise, yet they are shooting certain applications down for    being without technical merit," says Mikki Barry, president of the   Domain Name Rights Coalition.

"ICANN is supposed to be focusing on the technical issues of the    Internet, not reviewing business models," Barry adds.

In early October, ICANN received 44 valid proposals from companies  and consortia seeking to become registries of new top-level domains  (see "Take Your Pick of Domain Registrars"). Each proposal was        accompanied by a $50,000 application fee. Many of the proposals       offered multiple top-level domains, resulting in a pool of 191 options from which ICANN can choose.

ICANN's staff reviewed the technical, business, and financial      strengths of the proposals, and the results of that review were       posted on its Web site early Friday morning.

ICANN narrowed the 14 proposals to 7 finalists, all proposing .web    and .biz. The two strongest proposals appear to be from Afilias, a   consortium of 19 domain name registrars, including VeriSign's        Network Solutions subsidiary and KDD Internet Solutions, a           Japanese telecommunications company that has teamed with              Network Solutions. Network Solutions long held a monopoly for        domain name registrations (see "NSI Faces Domain Name 'Hoarding'      Suit") and currently is the sole registry for names in the .com, .net, and .org domains and the top registrar for names in these domains.

This came from PCWORLD.com 11/13/200

The reporters do NOT know the truth yet about the BIASED SUMMARY REPORTS. They do know about NSI as you can see! PLEASE everyone send info to reporters!!!!!! They need to know this week! Thank you
Steve Arnold    

 


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