October 2018 - At-Large - lists.icann.org

Fwd: For Sale - Entire names spaces.
by Carlton Samuels Nov. 1, 2018

Nov. 1, 2018

FYI, from one of a few on the domain investor business side who impress me as a sober, evidence-persuaded commentator, my friend Antony gave me permission to share this private note. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Antony Van Couvering <avc(a)avc.vc> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018, 7:41 pm Subject: Re: [At-Large] For Sale - Entire names spaces. To: Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels(a)gmail.com> Hi Carlton, So many expectations about new gTLDs have been proven wrong -- those of both proponents and opponents -- that some of the commitments made at launch are out of date or uneconomical or both. Effectively you have a bunch of TLDs that no-one wants because the applicants were so eager to appease trademark holders, or GAC, or ICANN, or local governments, that they agreed to all kinds of things they shouldn't have from an economic perspective. This is particularly true of those who sought to evade competition by filing as a community, or those who wouldn't / couldn't argue with restrictions imposed by city governments. You can argue whether that's good or bad, but there's certainly an economic cost to the gTLD registries who did that, both in terms of registration volume but also in resale value. Sponsoring organizations and governments who are getting a revenue share might also regret having imposed conditions, but I'm not sure there's a way out for "community" applications, because they won based on those very restrictions. If ICANN's guidebook for the next round is as opaque as the first one, and if the various outside committees/consultants examining the applications are as arbitrary and weird in their results, the same effect will occur again: applicants won't know if they're going to pass or not, so they will restrict themselves needlessly in order to get half a loaf instead of nothing at all. Antony On 10/24/2018 5:23 PM, Carlton Samuels wrote: Hi Anthony: I share your view on this. My line was really a teaser to hopefully bring out contrary opinions I've heard. A few of our brethren have argued that if the original conditionals were elements for the reduced valuation then maybe the full value could not be realized without shedding them. Cheers, -Carlton ============================== *Carlton A Samuels* *Mobile: 876-818-1799 Strategy, Process, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* ============================= On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 1:12 PM Antony Van Couvering <avc(a)avc.vc> wrote: > Hi Carlton, > > I'm pretty certain that the buyer would have to embrace all of the > commitments. Otherwise, It would be pretty easy to evade restrictions, > particularly those of "community" TLDs that restrict the sale or use of > second-level names. If that were allowed, you could simply sell it to > another party (that you happened to control) to escape the original > commitments. In my experience ICANN is very punctilious when it comes to > registry commitments > > One proof of this is that TLDs are valued at a lower (or higher) price > depending on what their commitments are, because prospective buyers don't > want a TLD that has restrictions that don't fit their business model or > vision. > > Antony > > On 10/24/2018 10:48 AM, Carlton Samuels wrote: > > What would be interesting is if conveyancing embraces every and all of the > original commitments. > > https://domainnamewire.com/2018/10/24/we-buy-tlds/ > > CAS > > ============================== > *Carlton A Samuels* > > *Mobile: 876-818-1799 Strategy, Process, Governance, Assessment & > Turnaround* > ============================= > > _______________________________________________ > At-Large mailing listAt-Large@atlarge-lists.icann.orghttps://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large > > At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org > > >

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For Sale - Entire names spaces.
by Carlton Samuels Oct. 31, 2018

Oct. 31, 2018

What would be interesting is if conveyancing embraces every and all of the original commitments. https://domainnamewire.com/2018/10/24/we-buy-tlds/ CAS ============================== *Carlton A Samuels* *Mobile: 876-818-1799Strategy, Process, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* =============================

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U.S. Government follows up on “cooling off period” idea for ICANN employees
by Carlton Samuels Oct. 31, 2018

Oct. 31, 2018

https://domainnamewire.com/2018/10/29/u-s-government-follows-up-on-cooling-… ============================== *Carlton A Samuels* *Mobile: 876-818-1799Strategy, Process, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* =============================

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FW: **REMINDER** Meeting Invitation / Alternates & Observers / GNSO Temp Spec gTLD RD EPDP call / Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 13:00 UTC
by Hadia Abdelsalam Mokhtar EL miniawi Oct. 30, 2018

Oct. 30, 2018

Dear All, In case you want to follow the EPDP call it starts in an hour and 15 minutes. Best Hadia From: Gnso-epdp-team [mailto:gnso-epdp-team-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Julie Bisland Sent: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:18 PM To: gnso-epdp-team(a)icann.org Cc: gnso-secs(a)icann.org Subject: [Gnso-epdp-team] **REMINDER** Meeting Invitation / Alternates & Observers / GNSO Temp Spec gTLD RD EPDP call / Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 13:00 UTC Dear all, Non-members can follow the EPDP call taking place on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s at 13:00 UTC via the audio cast or view only Adobe Connect room. As requested and discussed on Tuesday's (14 August 2018) meeting, please note that an additional Adobe Connect room has been created for use by interested alternates and observers to be able to view-only the main EPDP Team Adobe Connect room. The view-only room will also broadcast the audio of the EPDP Team AC room, however, those in the view-only room will not be heard. Note that the audio cast stream will also remain available for now for those that prefer to use that option to listen live to the EPDP Team meeting. View-Only Adobe Connect room for alternates and observers: https://participate.icann.org/gnso-epdp-observers Meeting Audio Cast (for alternates and observers) To join the event, click on the link: Listen in browser: http://stream.icann.org:8000/stream01 [stream.icann.org]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__stream.icann.org-3A8000…> Listen in application such as iTunes: http://stream.icann.org:8000/stream01.m3u [stream.icann.org]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__stream.icann.org-3A8000…> Agenda wiki page: https://community.icann.org/x/ow68BQ Thank you. Kind Regards, Julie

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Weekly posting summary for at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by narten＠us.ibm.com Oct. 26, 2018

Oct. 26, 2018

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Tim Cook at International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners
by Carlton Samuels Oct. 25, 2018

Oct. 25, 2018

Favours a [US] federal privacy law along the lines of GDPR .........Bemoans the rise of a 'data industrial complex'......."our own information is being 'weaponised'" ....taken to its extreme.....is "surveillance"..."and should make us very uncomfortable......" https://youtu.be/kVhOLkIs20A https://www.privacyconference2018.org/en https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/10/24/apple-ceo-tim-coo… Carlton ============================== *Carlton A Samuels* *Mobile: 876-818-1799Strategy, Process, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* =============================

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Joint Outreach of NCUC and At-Large at ICANN Barcelona
by Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond Oct. 19, 2018

Oct. 19, 2018

Dear Colleagues, I wanted to let you know about the joint NCUC At-Large Outreach Session that will take place at the ICANN meeting on Monday. Details are shown below. The session's full agenda is on: https://community.icann.org/x/XgG8BQ This session is ideal for people who are participating in an ICANN meeting for the first time. Please publicise this event to your colleagues who will attend ICANN63. Remote participation It is also possible to attend this meeting remotely - https://participate.icann.org/bcn63-113

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Weekly posting summary for at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org
by narten＠us.ibm.com Oct. 19, 2018

Oct. 19, 2018

Total of 5 messages in the last 7 days. script run at: Fri Oct 19 00:53:03 EDT 2018 Messages | Bytes | Who --------+------+--------+----------+------------------------ 20.00% | 1 | 43.30% | 48690 | joly at punkcast.com 20.00% | 1 | 18.33% | 20616 | avc at avc.vc 20.00% | 1 | 14.14% | 15898 | vanda at scartezini.org 20.00% | 1 | 13.61% | 15310 | carlton.samuels at gmail.com 20.00% | 1 | 10.62% | 11946 | narten at us.ibm.com --------+------+--------+----------+------------------------ 100.00% | 5 |100.00% | 112460 | Total

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NTIA Report to U.S Congress
by Carlton Samuels Oct. 15, 2018

Oct. 15, 2018

A highlight from the report: "....... *NTIA, engaging directly with ICANN as well as through the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), aggressively worked to maintain the ability for law enforcement, cybersecurity practitioners, intellectual property rights holders, and other users to access WHOIS information in a timely manner. This is to a certain extent reflected in the Temporary Specification, which maintains the requirement for registries and registrars to continue collecting WHOIS information as well as make access to now redacted information “reasonably” available. NTIA supported ICANN taking action to keep the WHOIS service working, but has made clear in remarks within the GAC that while the Temporary Specification is necessary, it is not sufficient, as it does not clearly articulate how WHOIS users are to be allowed access to this data in a predictable fashion....... NTIA volunteered to be one of three GAC representatives to the EPDP and is working over 30 hours a week to ensure that the future specification balances data protection with the needs to access WHOIS information for legitimate and lawful purposes.*" https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/first_semiannual_report_on… -Carlton ============================== *Carlton A Samuels* *Mobile: 876-818-1799Strategy, Process, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* =============================

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DIRECT AUJOURD’HUI – Bénin DNS Forum #BeninDNS
by Joly MacFie Oct. 13, 2018

Oct. 13, 2018

Simulcasts 1) https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live/status/1051025899808677888 2) https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/videos/1714282798681206/ <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation> [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/benindns>Institué depuis l’année 2015 par des organisations à but non lucratif, le *Bénin DNS Forum <http://dnsforum.bj/>* est un rendez-vous majeur des questions liées à Internet et au DNS au Bénin. Cet événement annuel est organisé en plusieurs activités, forum public, séminaires, sessions de formation ouvertes sur les technologies et ressources critiques de l’Internet au Bénin. Les items qui constituent la quintessence de ce forum sont essentiellement axés sur l’économie et la gouvernance autour du DNS, les noms de domaine, DNSSEC et DANE, la sécurité de l’Internet et les ressources IP exploitées ou qui interviennent dans la construction et l’exploitation de l’Internet au Bénin. La session finale aujourd’hui sera diffusée en direct sur* Internet Society Live Stream Channel <http://livestream.com/internetsociety>*. *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/benindns <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/benindns>PROGRAMME: http://dnsforum.bj/programmebdf2018/ <http://dnsforum.bj/programmebdf2018/>TWITTER: #BeninDNS http://bit.ly/benindns <http://bit.ly/benindns>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10619/ <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttps://isoc.live/10619/%E2%80%8B> -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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