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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">Congratulations to you
both, wishing you all the luck with this initiative.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">Stephanie Perrin</font></font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018-02-26 14:04, Michael
Karanicolas wrote:<br>
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wanted to send out a brief note letting you know about a new
NGO being launched by Kathy Kleiman and myself: the Domain
Name Rights Coalition - which will be an avenue for our
engagement with ICANN going forward. </div>
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copying our press release below - would very much appreciate
any help to spread the word, particularly via our<span> </span><a
href="https://www.facebook.com/DomainRights/"
target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"
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href="https://twitter.com/DomainRights" target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" moz-do-not-send="true">Twitter</a><span> </span>pages.
And stay tuned to these pages for updates on our work on
Internet governance and such.</div>
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New Roman",serif;color:black"><i><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB">26 February 2018 – for immediate release</span></i><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
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New Roman",serif;color:black" align="center"><b><span
style="font-size:15.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150)"
lang="EN-GB">The Domain Name Rights Coalition: Working
for fair, balanced and principled approaches to Internet
Governance</span></b><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
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New Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
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New Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB">Today, a public interest group is reborn.
Twenty years ago, at the start of the commercial Internet,
a group of advocates came together to fight for the rights
of registrants - for individuals, entrepreneurs and
organizations who registered domain names and posted their
ideas, concerns, products, and services online. The DNRC
defended political parody, argued in support of
protections for Internet Service Providers (then a new
type of company), and worked to make the rules for the
Internet fair and balanced for everyone. At that time, the
Internet hosted only 70 million people.</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
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New Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB">Now, with over 3 billion people online, the
need for registrant representatives is even more
important. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) has been untethered from the US
government, leaving its multistakeholder community as the
ultimate guardians of a free and open Internet. With the
rebirth of the Domain Name Rights Coalition, we resume our
work on behalf of Internet users. The Domain Name Rights
Coalition will be headed by Kathy Kleiman, one of the
original founders, and Michael Karanicolas.</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
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New Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB">Kathy Kleiman is part of the group that
founded ICANN. She is well-known for her passionate work
seeking fairness and balance in Internet policies and
served on the final drafting teams of both the Uniform
Dispute Resolution Policy and Uniform Rapid Suspension
Policy.<span> <span> </span></span>Michael Karanicolas is
a Canadian-based human rights advocate who has published
extensively on a range of digital rights issues, and has
experience at the highest levels advising governments,
private sector entities, and intergovernmental
organizations on how to bring their policies into line
with international human rights standards. He currently
serves as Co-Chair of ICANN's Cross-Community Working
Party on Human Rights, and as the Rapporteur for the
subgroup reworking ICANN’s transparency policies.</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB">Both Michael and Kathy are leaders in the
ICANN ecosystem, particularly through the Non-Commercial
Users’ Constituency, which Kathy co-founded, and on whose
Executive Committee Michael now serves.</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
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New Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif;color:black"><i><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB">“I am thrilled to see the Domain Name
Rights Coalition reboot. We need experienced people
helping to ensure that domain names – the street signs
of the Internet – are fairly distributed and not
arbitrarily revoked. The Domain Name Rights Coalition
will once again be a home for education, participation,
research and advocacy for users and registrants who are
online today – and the millions who will come online
tomorrow.</span></i><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span> <span> </span></span>-- Kathy Kleiman,
Co-Founder and President, DNRC.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
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New Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
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New Roman",serif;color:black"><i><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB">“The DNRC will fill a crucial void in the
modern digital rights space, by providing a dedicated
vehicle for programming aimed at advancing human rights
in Internet governance. We look forward to engaging
directly with academics, advocates, and other
like-minded organizations, to collaborate on research,
advocacy, and outreach. I am honoured to take up this
role, and excited about the road ahead.”<span> </span></span></i><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB">-- Michael Karanicolas, Director of Policy,
DNRC.</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
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New Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
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New Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB">DNRC is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization
under US law and seeks the support of the Internet
Community. To find out more about the DNRC and our
principles, membership and donations, visit our website at<span> </span></span><span
lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.dnrc.tech/"
target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(5,99,193)">www.dnrc.tech/</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>and follow us on Twitter at
@DomainRights and Facebook at<span> </span></span><span
lang="EN-GB"><a
href="http://www.facebook.com/DomainRights"
target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.facebook.com/DomainRights</span></a></span><span
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lang="EN-GB">.</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
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New Roman",serif;color:black"><b><i><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(45,92,165)"
lang="EN-GB">For further information, please contact:</span></i></b><span
style="font-size:15.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
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New Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:15.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
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Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB">Kathy Kleiman, President<span></span></span></p>
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Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB">Domain Name Rights Coalition<span></span></span></p>
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Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB">Email:<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a
href="mailto:kathy@dnrc.tech" target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(5,99,193)">kathy@dnrc.tech</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB">Twitter: @DomainRights and @KleimK<span></span></span></p>
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Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
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Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB">Michael Karanicolas, Policy Director<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB">Domain Name Rights Coalition<span></span></span></p>
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Roman",serif;color:black"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB">Email:<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a
href="mailto:michael@dnrc.tech" target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(5,99,193)">michael@dnrc.tech</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"
lang="EN-GB"><span></span></span></p>
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