Dear ICANN Board of Directors,Name.Space has reviewed
the ICANN staff
comments on our TLD Registry
application. We recognize
that the
staff report raises concern about
scalability of our systems, experience
of
our staff, and capitalization.
This letter is to assure you that the
Name.Space
board of directors has
discussed these issues and is prepared
to act proptly
to adequately address and
remedy them.
Regarding scalability, Name.Space will
engage
Andersen Consulting to draft a
report and recommendation to the ICANN
Board
of Directors.
Regarding experience, Name.Space is in
the process of negotiation
with a large
ISP and dataservice provider to set up
mirror and backup facilities
for the
Name.Space registry, and to provide
expertise in large scale database
operations.
Regarding
capitalization, Name.Space is
engaged in advanced talks with another
company
to supply between 2 and 5
million dollars in capital based on
certain assumptions
and milestones.
Name.Space stands behind the TLDs that
it publishes and operates
and expects
that those TLDS will become globally
recognized at some point in
time, with
Name.Space as the primary operator.
Name.Space will ask ICANN to
recommend
the inclusion of its TLDs into the
legacy root to the NTIA once it
has
produced satisfactory documentation and
satisfied the necessary reasonable
criteria
set forth by ICANN.
Name.Space is willing to introduce its
TLDs in stages, and
will produce a
revised business and operational plan
that factors a phase-in
of TLDs over a
period of time. That plan will include
a registry/registrar
(wholesale/retail)
model with Name.Space as the wholesale
registry provider
servicing the
registrar/reseller market.
Since 1996 Name.Space has invested
and
marketed the TLDs that it publishes and
operates and will defend its
intellectual
property rights to those
TLDs as well as its right to publish and
operate registry
services for said TLDs.
Name.Space is prepared to hold
discussions with ICANN
to secure that
Name.Space's interest in the TLDs that
it publishes and operates
as well as
secure that Name.Space's interest in
said TLDs is protected in an
operational
and proper way.
Name.Space is confident that we can
reach a workable
relationship with
ICANN, and that such will be fruitful
for the internet and
other registrars
and end users who will benefit from the
rich TLD diversity
and low prices that
Name.Space offers.
Sincerely,
Paul Garrin
Founder/CEO
Name.Space,
Inc.