Vanda, may I recommend the addition of an indicator to the "marketplace health index": number and fraction of defensive domain-name registrations. There are studies by people like Ben Edelman ior similar approaches that look at this question and they should be performed periodically. Monitoring the aftermarket is also very important. If there is an active aftermarket it may mean that the names are actually in demand and in use. Both indicators together are useful to see if users of DNS registrations are indeed finding unused names for their products and services, or whether, in the contrary sense, there is an unacceptable level of cybersquatting and consumer-unfriendly speculation with the new names. Yours, Alejandro Pisanty - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Facultad de Química UNAM Av. Universidad 3000, 04510 Mexico DF Mexico +52-1-5541444475 FROM ABROAD +525541444475 DESDE MÉXICO SMS +525541444475 Blog: http://pisanty.blogspot.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pisanty Unete al grupo UNAM en LinkedIn, http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/22285/4A106C0C8614 Twitter: http://twitter.com/apisanty ---->> Unete a ISOC Mexico, http://www.isoc.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ________________________________ Desde: lac-discuss-en-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [lac-discuss-en-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] en nombre de Vanda Scartezini [vanda@scartezini.org] Enviado el: martes, 15 de diciembre de 2015 10:45 Hasta: LACRALO list Asunto: [lac-discuss-en] FW: [ALAC-Announce] VOTE ANNOUNCEMENT: ALAC Statement on the gTLD Marketplace Health Index Proposal Dear friends The health Index proposal for gTLD marketplace is open to vote. I have already made my suggestion during comment period and it was added to final text. My intention is to vote in favor to ratification of the ALAC Statement. The vote period will end this Friday. If you haven’t read the text , please do, and let me know if you all agree with such vote. Kind regards, Vanda Scartezini Polo Consultores Associados Av. Paulista 1159, cj 1004 01311-200- Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil Land Line: +55 11 3266.6253 Mobile: + 55 11 98181.1464 Sorry for any typos. From: <alac-announce-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org<mailto:alac-announce-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org>> on behalf of ICANN Staff Reply-To: ICANN Staff Date: Monday, December 14, 2015 at 9:59 PM To: "alac-announce@atlarge-lists.icann.org<mailto:alac-announce@atlarge-lists.icann.org>" Subject: [ALAC-Announce] VOTE ANNOUNCEMENT: ALAC Statement on the gTLD Marketplace Health Index Proposal Dear All, This is to let you know that the ALAC Statement on the gTLD Marketplace Health Index Proposal<https://community.icann.org/x/7L5YAw> is now final. Alan Greenberg, Chair of the ALAC, has asked that the 15 ALAC members to ratify this final Statement. To read the final Statement, please visit: https://community.icann.org/x/7L5YAw Please note that the ALAC ratification vote will start on 14 December 2015 23:59 UTC and end on 18 December 2015 23:59 UTC. Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine, Terri Agnew and Yesim Nazlar ICANN Policy Staff in support of the At-Large Community E-mail: staff@atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Facebook: www.facebook.com/icann<https://www.facebook.com/icannatlarge>atlarge<https://www.facebook.com/icannatlarge> Twitter: @<https://twitter.com/ICANNAtLarge>ICANNAtLarge<https://twitter.com/ICANNAtLarge> [unknown.png]