Domain Name Rights Coalition

[Stephanie Perrin]

Congratulations to you both, wishing you all the luck with this initiative.

Stephanie Perrin

On 2018-02-26 14:04, Michael Karanicolas wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Just 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.
>
> I'm copying our press release below - would very much appreciate any 
> help to spread the word, particularly via ourFacebook 
> <https://www.facebook.com/DomainRights/>andTwitter 
> <https://twitter.com/DomainRights>pages. And stay tuned to these pages 
> for updates on our work on Internet governance and such.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Michael Karanicolas
>
>
> Inline image 1
>
> /26 February 2018 – for immediate release/
>
> *The Domain Name Rights Coalition: Working for fair, balanced and 
> principled approaches to Internet Governance*
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.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.
>
> 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.
>
> /“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./-- Kathy Kleiman, Co-Founder and President, DNRC.
>
> /“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.”/-- Michael Karanicolas, Director of Policy, DNRC.
>
> 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 
> atwww.dnrc.tech/ <http://www.dnrc.tech/>and follow us on Twitter at 
> @DomainRights and Facebook atwww.facebook.com/DomainRights 
> <http://www.facebook.com/DomainRights>.
>
> */For further information, please contact:/*
>
> Kathy Kleiman, President
>
> Domain Name Rights Coalition
>
> Email:kathy at dnrc.tech <mailto:kathy at dnrc.tech>
>
> Twitter: @DomainRights and @KleimK
>
> Michael Karanicolas, Policy Director
>
> Domain Name Rights Coalition
>
> Email:michael at dnrc.tech <mailto:michael at dnrc.tech>
>
> Twitter: @DomainRights and @M_Karanicolas
>
> **
>
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