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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><big>Dear Sala,<br>
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Thanks Carlos for the mention. Yes, I distributed a paper
leaflet to some friends in Paris, during the WSIS.<br>
The demonstration is clear.<br>
Two journal articles are going to be published. Please, just
wait a few days.<br>
I asked the question about tax heavens to Fadi Chehadé in Paris,
and to 3 members of ICANN board/GNSO.<br>
You will find the verbatims in my articles.<br>
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Warm regards,<br>
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@+, Dominique</big><small><br>
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Société européenne de l'Internet
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Le 04/03/13 22:02, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro a écrit :<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Carlos A.
Afonso <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ca@cafonso.ca" target="_blank">ca@cafonso.ca</a>></span>
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Dear folks, this may or may not pertain to any current thread
of "dialogue", but is nonetheless quite interesting, and
perhaps revealing of the nature of the gTLD business.<br>
<br>
Journalist Dominique Lacroix (Le Monde) has put together some
statistics regarding the economic interests behind the gTLD
craze unleashed by ICANN:<br>
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This is interesting Carlos and Dominique. Do you have the URL
to the piece that Dominique wrote? <br>
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- 393 US applications are by US companies' branches based in
European tax heavens (including 76 bids by Amazon Luxemburg);<br>
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- the total of gTLD applications by US companies' branches
based in tax heavens is 891; just 390 applications are
formally from US-based companies' headquarters;<br>
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- in summary, 47% of all gTLD applications are operations by
US companies' branches based in tax heavens;<br>
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- of the total 1930 bids, 1455 (75,4%) will be run by one of
seven US backend operators.<br>
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fraternal regards<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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--c.a.<br>
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