[LINK] PIR seeking support for new non-profit Tld

[Roger Clarke]

At 16:02 +1100 16/2/12, Darrell Burkey wrote:
>  'wots this .ngo thingie all about then??'

Teacher to class:

"The world stuffed up .org;  so the world needs .ngo.

"But Australia did .org.au a lot better;  so Oz doesn't need .ngo.au".

Discuss.

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At 16:02 +1100 16/2/12, Darrell Burkey wrote:
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>Wearing my President of Computing Assistance Support and Education hat
>(see http://www.case.org.au) I'd like to ask if anyone has views or
>information regarding a Melbourne consulting company which is contacting
>  Australian non profits on behalf of the Public Interest Registry who
>currently manage the .ORG domain space, or about the issue of
>establishing a new domain name for non-profit organisations.
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>They are asking Australian non-profit organisations to sign a letter of
>support which will be used to petition ICANN for a new gTLD of .ngo.
>Their main rationale appears to be the statement that this will be a
>closed gTLD that only non-profit organisations will be allowed to use.
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>I have spent many years educating Australian non-profits about the
>benefits of using the Australian domain name space and the value of
>identifying as .org.au and .asn.au against the advice of many 'expert'
>marketing firms who insist that they should register in .com for the
>best exposure and higher validity, whatever that means.
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>So I'm a bit surprised that when we essentially have two closed domain
>name spaces here in Australia that a US firm would hire a local
>marketing firm to seek support for a domain that seems to be to be
>pointless. I doubt very much that ICANN is going to change the model of
>domain names to suit their need for a closed domain space but even if
>they do I don't see how it would be more influential or credible than
>the .au space for Australian non-profits.
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>I'm sure people here have more experience in these matters than myself
>and I'd really appreciate some feedback or hard research that would be
>useful in drafting a public response to the many non-profit
>organisations that CASE works with.
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>I have participated on several auDA domain name policy panels and I've
>had an off the record discussion with them about this and I've also
>contacted Felton Communications in Melbourne to discuss the matter with
>them. If anyone has contacts with PIR that would be useful as well.
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>Thanks.
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>For background see:
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>Fenton Communication in Melbourne:
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>http://www.fenton.com.au/news/20/38/Aussie-non-profits-to-benefit-from-proposed-NGO-domain/d,news_detail/
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>Australian National University
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