gTLD	Full Legal Name	E-mail suffix	Detail
.islam	Asia Green IT System Bilgisayar San. ve Tic. Ltd. Sti.	nsline.com	View

• Intended registrants in the TLD.

The .Islam gTLD is intended for Muslim faithful who wish to promote, participate or learn about Islam and its various facets, its affect on the daily life of the people around the word, its history, its law and jurisprudence and the rich and diverse culture that surrounds it. Thus, any well-intentioned Muslim who wants to supply such content, or do business based around it, will be able to operate a domain under the .ISLAM gTLD.

• Intended end-users of the TLD.


For a fifth of the worldʹs population, Islam is both a religion and a complete way of life. Muslims follow a religion of peace, mercy, and forgiveness - and the majority have nothing to do with the extremely grave events which have come to be associated with their faith. Every Muslim, and indeed a great many non-Muslims, in the world can benefit from .ISLAM websites and the wealth of information and services that it is anticipated will offered by them. The diversity of the .ISLAM gTLD’s offering would be wide enough to cover almost all audiences and their Islam-related needs, considering that all .ISLAM websites will be promoting Islam in some form.

Within all of these populations, the specific intended end users of the .ISLAM gTLD are manifold, and include:

People with ties to Islamic heritage: This includes a significant percentage of both the population of Muslim countries and also with other nations.
Individual Muslims: As demonstrated above, this includes hundreds of millions of individuals around the world.
Students: Those learning about different aspects of Islam, its concepts, its laws, its culture and heritage and its many other facets would benefit from increased resources online that would help them to learn and develop.
Islamic businesses: as in every community, Muslims undertake a great deal of business both within their community and also with external groups. The ability to link their business to the word Islam will therefore be of significant importance to Muslim businesses, both to denote a Muslim-based business and also as a source of pride in being known as such. Indeed, the word Islam is already exceptionally popular within online business – and the word alone yields more than 500 million hits when searched.
All sects: As described above, the main two sects of the Muslim community are Sunnis and Shias – both of whom will be welcome to operate under the .ISLAM gTLD, alongside all other Muslim sects.

It is hoped that not only will these intended users derive individual benefit from the existence of a .ISLAM community, but that they will also contribute in turn. This should create a group benefit, which will in turn feed back in to individual benefits – establishing a beneficial cycle.


• Related activities the applicant has carried out or intends to carry out in service of this purpose.

Anticipating the diversification of TLDs now being realized, and the consequent introduction of an Islamic-specific online space, AGITSys has been working with a wide variety of related parties for several years in preparation, and will continue to do so going forward. A key element for the success of the .ISLAM gTLD is a strong and interactive community, which Muslims around the world are proud to associate with and keen to contribute to. To ensure this, AGITSys will sponsor community outreach and marketing, in order to raise awareness of the forthcoming possibilities. These possibilities are also highly appealing for Islamic businesses, and as such AGITSys will engage in dialogue with those businesses, and industry chiefs, regarding their ideas for how the .ISLAM gTLD will take shape, and what they intend to subsequently give back to it.
Quality content will also be fundamental to a thriving .ISLAM community, especially because AGITSys is committed to ensuring that .ISLAM is populated by quality second-level domain offerings. With this in mind, AGITSys will be talking with those most likely to contribute quality content, from news and media agencies to academics and libraries (who will be able to digitize Islamic materials and then distribute them online comprehensively for the first time) about how they can and will contribute, and what AGITSys can do to facilitate this process.
Ultimately, however, religion will always be the most important element for a successful .ISLAM community online. The entire gTLD concept is designed as a place of online respect; almost worship, for those of Islamic faith. As such, the involvement, blessing and feedback of the Islamic religious community is fundamentally important. Aware of this, AGITSys has been in prolonged and continued contact with important religious figures – asking them what they want to see and how they would like to see it done, whilst also encouraging them to spread the word and prepare themselves. This should mean that when the .ISLAM gTLD comes online, there will be a large swathe of information posted almost immediately – therefore instantly creating a rewarding user experience.

• Explanation of how the purpose is of a lasting nature.

The community that will be served by .ISLAM--growing as it has out of the Muslims community--has thrived and grown for more than a millennium. Remarkably, it has done so largely without the level of connection online found within Western cultures. This existing community interconnection speaks to the cultural staying power of the Islamic community and the many ways it enriches world culture.

With the adoption of a .ISLAM community, this robust group will be further empowered to interconnect and grow, allowing it to take its equal place on the Internet stage. The community thrives now, but will reach new heights through the .ISLAM gTLD.

The growth of the .ISLAM gTLD will be driven by what economists refer to as the network effect. A network effect occurs when a service becomes more popular as more individuals adopt it. A significant portion of the serviceʹs value stems directly from the increased adoption and usage of the service. Historically the network effect is most powerful in tools of interconnection. The telegraph and telephone were technologies that grew exponentially due to the network effect. The Internet itself is an example of that phenomenon, as seen by the rapid upward growth curve of Internet penetration, broadband speeds, and web site creation. ICANNʹs data on the growth of .COM is an example of the network effect, and now it is seen in social-media platforms atop the Internet, such as Facebook and Twitter.

As more sites offer information, services, and opportunities for interconnection to the .ISLAM community as a whole, more members of the community will navigate to those sites. Many of those will provide their own content, and their activity there will spark further growth of second-level .ISLAM domains. At some point, information and service providers currently not offering sites will see the demand for .ISLAM-related content and will migrate their offerings to .ISLAM sites as well, furthering the offerings to the community and further driving community members to .ISLAM sites. The future benefits of interlinking this diverse and global community are incalculable but immense.

gTLD	Full Legal Name	E-mail suffix	Detail
.mma	MMA IARD	afnic.fr	View

Table of Contents

1 - Intended registrants in the TLD
2 - Intended end users of the TLD
3 - Related activities the applicant has carried out or intends to carry out inservice of this purpose
4 - Lasting nature of community-based purpose



Today, MMAʹs reference to ʺsocial networkʺ mainly refers to the world of internet. The web and internet are simply a reality for MMA. For French people, and for MMAʹs clients more specifically, internet is an integral part of their relation with MMA. MMAʹs websites (and included forums), MMAʹs Facebook page are the mean to participate by giving oneʹs opinion, sharing oneʹs comments, cooperating and exchanging information and experiences. For MMAʹs employees, agents and their employees, MM@académie platform is the place, since 2007, where MMAʹs family share knowledge, ideas, experiences and contributes to the construction of tomorrowʹs company! The purpose behind .mma is mainly to federate all MMAʹs community around one extension. MMAʹs new gTLD will permit to gather all internet tools used to communicate with MMAʹs community in a same and unique place, not to mention all other commercial, marketing and other benefits that we have presented in our application.


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1 - Intended registrants in the TLD
To be precise and specific, intended registrants in our scenario are persons and entities who will be eligible to have the use of domain names under the .mma extension (Domain Users) since only MMA will own those domain names (Single Registrant). This approach is due to MMAʹs will to ensure maximum security of its internet ʺislandʺ as explained in our application. Intended Domain Users are persons or entities having a privileged link with MMA (i.e. a social, economic and⁄or partnership relation) and which present a project in relation to the activities and⁄or needs of MMA and⁄or MMAʹs community. Domain Users can thus be any member of MMAʹs community i.e. agents, brokers, clients, etc.


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2 - Intended end users of the TLD
Intended end users are mainly all members of MMAʹs community but also all persons and entities having a particular interest in MMAʹs activities and commitments.


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3 - Related activities the applicant has carried out or intends to carry out inservice of this purpose

Since its creation, MMA has carried out every activity necessary to bring together its community. MMA established a presence on all the French territory allowing its community to have an accessible point of contact. It has also put in place tools and mechanism for its community to come together i.e. web forums, MM@académie platform, MMA Foundation for disabled persons, etc. as previously mentioned. Also MMA has always been transparent with its community and has taken all necessary measures to communicate, listen and put in action what its community wants particularly via internet. MMA is now willing to open its horizons and to carry out all activities necessary to best reach its purpose of bringing together its community. MMA promises its community to continue with the commitments it has taken and to further make other commitments and put them into action to ensure a strong and interactive community. Since only by reinforcing the relations between its community members can MMAʹs community best operate and fulfill its role both in the insurance world and in relation to other social, cultural, environmental and humanitarian activities.


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4 - Lasting nature of community-based purpose

MMA is a mutual and an insurance company. Its activities are long lasting since risks are inherent to our lives and accidents will always happen. It is thus primordial to have insurance coverage and this services sector will not vanish. Therefore MMA, as a company, will always have services to offer and will always be there to participate to the improvement of its community in all fields. Nevertheless, to be able to do so, MMA is aware that only by having a strong and interactive community should its goals be achieved. .mma is the perfect tool to unit even further MMAʹs community today and in the coming years.