Dear All, This is a reminder to participate in the DNS Abuse survey. The survey closes tomorrow, Friday 13 September 2024. For more details, including the link to the survey, see the announcement here: https://ccnso.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-09aug24-en.htm Nick Wenban-Smith, DASC Chair, explains why all ccTLD managers should seriously consider participating in this survey: “Firstly, the DASC was set up to enable the ccTLD community to take the initiative on DNS Abuse related issues. You will recall that previously other parts of the community (usual suspects) were attempting to fill this void and pedalling unhelpful (if not downright inaccurate) information about what ccTLDs were (or were not) doing to combat DNS Abuse. Giving us collateral to present positively and proactively on the topic helps us to keep hold of the agenda and stop others from overstepping their boundaries. As we saw from the first survey data in 2022, this was very successful. Secondly, as you have already stated, the ccTLDs actually have a really strong position on DNS Abuse from which to speak. But we need to go out on the front foot and advocate for ourselves, no-one else is going to do it for us. You can see from the wider community discussion topics that this is a high interest area, especially from governments and regulators. It is in our own self-interest to highlight our strengths and therefore to preserve our independence as ccTLDs from potential unwelcome external governance, regulation and censorship. It is always a real pleasure to be able to state that observed abuse levels in ccTLDs are generally 10x less than gTLDs for example. Finally, as the survey authors we were well-aware that there may be some questions that ccTLD managers are not comfortable answering, even though the survey responses are only presented in anonymised aggregate data sets. And that is perfectly fine. For this reason the questions are pretty much all optional, you don't have to answer any questions which (for whatever reasons) you do not wish to answer.” Thank you. Best regards, Joke Braeken joke.braeken@icann.org<mailto:joke.braeken@icann.org>