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Username: Rainer Schlüter
Date/Time: Thu, November 16, 2000 at 6:46 PM GMT
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Subject: .coop gTLD - the best option to choose

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CECOP, the European Confederation of Worker’s Co-operatives, Social Co-operatives and  Participative Enterprises is representing the interests of more than 1.2 million worker members and federates 83000 enterprises operating in different sectors of the European Market. CECOP promotes the development of Workers’ Co-operatives, Social Co-operatives, Participative Enterprises and of other enterprises involved in the social and solidarity economy movement at local, regional, national, European and International levels. Therefore CECOP works towards the recognition of the specific characteristic of this type of enterprise at a European level and aims to set out a legal, fiscal and social framework at Community level, corresponding to the needs of the actors involved, which would facilitate their development in Europe and be an important step towards their Europeanisation.

As a supporter of a new .co-op top level domain, I agree with the ICANN staff review which concluded that proposal for .co-op is both technically and financially sound. I commend ICANN staff for appropriately including .co-op among the proposed TLDs still under consideration and for noting the broad public support for .co-op and lack of criticism associated with this proposal.

.co-op is truly a domain name that will make a difference to Internet users across the globe. .co-op will fulfill unmet needs on the Internet, will open up a broad range of new domain names, will enhance competition in domain name registry services, and most importantly, will help consumers find the businesses they trust on the Internet.  Because the word co-op/coop
is recognized across the globe to represent businesses that are owned and operated by their members, .co-op will make a strong new addition to existing TLDs.

To ensure that new TLDs fulfill unmet needs on the Internet, we urge ICANN to approve .co-op as the Special Purpose TLD that will truly make a difference on the Internet."

Indeed a co-op domain could become a highly trusted place to do business over the Internet on a global level. I can explain in confidence, that the establishment of a new ‘coop’ domain will on the one hand help the co-operative movement to find its position and ‘home’ platform and on the other hand that this domain will be recognized at international level according to the spirit of the co-operative sector, whose members subscribe to an ethic, based on honesty, transparency, social responsibility and altruism.


Rainer SCHLÜTER
General Secretary


Additional support for the selection of the .coop application by:
Antonina GUARRELLA
Victoria BARRUTIA
Sabine SPADA
Luigi MARTIGNETTI
Thomas FRÖBEL
Said el HARCHIS

       
     

 

Link: CECOP aisbl - SUPPORTING THE .COOP gTLD


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