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.baby is auctioned off to Johnson and Johnson, I understand, for
private use - meaning it wont be available to anyone other than
J&J. It went for $3,088,888 . See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-12-17-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-12-17-en</a> <br>
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It is a clear loot - cultural and financial... But the civil
society associated with the IG scene is too well 'engaged' and
pampered by the status-quo-ists for them to ask the needed
questions... I wrote the below email to a civil society group that
is directly associated with ICANN... <br>
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In fact, when discussions on 'closed generics'* was underway in
ICANN, some prominent members of civil society here wrote a paper
approving this practice in the name of 'innovative business
models'...<br>
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(* closed generic are those top level domain names like .baby and
.book, that are allocated for private use, whereby no one else will
be able to use them. They get used to indicate services, products or
activities exclusively of just that one company. )<br>
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parminder
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<font face="Verdana">It really hurts deeply to my public and
political convictions when a generic term of language like
'baby' is auctioned off to the highest bidder for a certain,
extremely important, exclusive use. What public interest has
been served here? Is there anyone to ask this question? And I
direct this question specifically to that part of the civil
society which the rest of the world would trust should be asking
the questions in the ICANN's context. <br>
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Any trademark authority would have rejected out of hand if
Johnson and Johnson had sought 'baby' as a trademark for itself.
The reasons are obvious. But those reasons do not mean anything
to ICANN, and perhaps neither to civil society groups associated
with ICANN. <br>
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But the trademark authorities are expressly public interest
bodies, under public authorities, which are in turn subject to
institutionalised public oversight and accountability. <br>
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ICANN on the other hand is a system captured by a group of
people, who have developed the perfect means and system to keep
all those close by and powerful happy in different ways - it
uses the euphemism 'stakeholders' for them. <br>
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Most of all, it keeps the big daddy, the US, happy, by employing
various means to support its reign over the</font><font
face="Verdana"> global</font><font face="Verdana"> Internet - it
keeps a boisterous IG circuit in play that supports the status
quo, and drowns out every other voice. This has been done very
effectively till now. Btw, which technical governance mandate
ICANN was pursuing to propose and set up the World Economic
Forum based new Net Mundial Initiative, which is simply a way to
divert global demands for addressing pressing Internet related
public policy issues. This is done directly to appease US
government's political interest, which ICANN has no business to
be doing.. And then it keep the domain name industry happy and
prospering, and also other major industries.... This group of
people, which goes in the name of ICANN, does all this using the
enormous funds that it illegally collects as a tax from global
public using the Internet. This is where the money goes, and it
produces conditions for further extraction.<br>
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It is a sorry state. <br>
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parminder <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Thursday 18 December 2014 11:18
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<pre wrap="">How long that will continue/last will be a question to answer in near
future.
Cheers!
sent from Google nexus 4
kindly excuse brevity and typos.
On 18 Dec 2014 02:02, "Carlton Samuels" <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:carlton.samuels@gmail.com"><carlton.samuels@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The money pile grows...
-Carlton
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-12-17-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-12-17-en</a>
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Results Available for 17 December 2014 New gTLD Program Auction
17 December 2014
On 17 December 2014, Power Auctions LLC <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.powerauctions.com/"><http://www.powerauctions.com/></a>,
ICANN's authorized auction service provider, conducted a New gTLD Program
Auction to resolve string contention for two new generic top-level domain
(gTLD) strings: .BABY and .MLS. Applicants for these strings were unable to
resolve contention among themselves; thus their contention sets proceeded
to auction, which is the method of last resort to resolve string contention
as prescribed in Module 4 of the New gTLD Program Applicant Guidebook
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb"><http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb></a>. Subject to payment of the
winning price and meeting all other criteria for eligibility, the winner
will enter ICANN's contracting process to sign a Registry Agreement to
operate the respective gTLD.
Six applicants participated in the auction for .BABY. Johnson & Johnson
Services Inc. prevailed with a winning price of $3,088,888.
Two applicants participated in the auction for MLS. The Canadian Real
Estate Association prevailed with a winning price of $3,359,000.
All proceeds from the Auction are being segregated and withheld from use
until ICANN's Board of Directors define a plan for an appropriate use of
the funds through consultation with the community.
More Information
- Auction Results webpage
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<pre wrap=""> Auction reports on this page on the New gTLD Microsite provide
additional
information on bidding.
- Auction proceeds and costs
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/auctions/proceeds"><http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/auctions/proceeds></a>: A detailed
summary of the proceeds and costs of all auctions conducted through
November 2014. This information is updated at the end of each month.
- Auctions schedule
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/auctions/schedule-12dec14-en.pdf"><
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/auctions/schedule-12dec14-en.pdf></a>
[PDF, 253 KB]: Subsequent auctions are scheduled to occur on a monthly
basis throughout 2014 and into early 2015. Auction events are intended
to
resolve multiple contention sets simultaneously.
- General New gTLD Program Auctions
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/auctions"><http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/auctions></a> information.
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