www.organicnames.org

Organic Names Ltd

.ORG Proposal Steve Dyer

www.organicnames.org

Background

• Simple, transparent, for-profit bid• Advisory Board• No funding of “good causes” – no tax on

registrants• Neutral, and independent of gTLD registries• Allow registrars excluded by the

accreditation process• No claim on $5m endowment

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Technical

• Detailed technical plan• Experience in running registries:

– CentralNic: over 1.5 million names– Nominet UK: over 3.5 million names

• Successfully performed 5 software transitions in 6 years in two registries

• Currently support RRP, email, web console, and development version of EPP

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Policy

• Will comply with, and actively participate in development of, ICANN policy

• Services initially similar to those of Verisign, for stability

• Better service levels• Registrant details escrowed for fully

functional whois

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Questions?