gTLD	Full Legal Name	E-mail suffix	Detail
.tickets	Shubert Internet, Inc.	shubertorg.com	View

There is currently a great deal of confusion among consumers as to where tickets can be purchased for legitimate forms of arts and entertainment. Our goal is for .TICKETS to serve as a central market place where the content on the associated web sites is affiliated with the Arts & Entertainment and Ticketing Services Communities and where all tickets sold on .TICKETS sites are through approved and legitimate channels. The Arts & Entertainment Community will benefit by the availability of an effective, efficient and centralized market place for communicating directly to consumers and for the buying and selling of tickets to various forms of arts and entertainment; consumers will benefit from greater transparency in the ticket distribution process, and enhanced reliability regarding the source and legitimacy of their online ticket purchases. In order to educate the consumer, .TICKETS will be marketed via social media, digital campaigns, and other media as the source for tickets to arts and entertainment; and news and information about the Arts & Entertainment Community and the Ticketing Services Community.

To protect .TICKETS’s reputation and the associational benefits it offers registrants and Internet users, we will actively promote and enforce our Acceptable Use and Abuse Prevention and Naming policies and procedures, which we believe will effectively combat improper or unlawful unprotected speech and online conduct. We believe that these mechanisms will be effective in assuring the reputation of the .TICKETS top-level domain and its registrants, and will foster greater confidence among Internet users with respect to internet services and, in particular, the provision of online ticketing services.

The .TICKETS top-level domain will be marketed to potential registrants who want to associate themselves, their products, services, thoughts, ideas or anything else in a positive way with .TICKETS and the Arts & Entertainment Community, as well as to those who want to communicate with them in an easily identifiable way. Therefore, we believe that the great majority of potential registrants who apply for a .TICKETS domain name will do so because of its association with legitimate purveyors of arts and entertainment and related service industries or because they want to reach those who do, and not for other reasons. In these ways, the .TICKETS top-level domain will bring a special association with arts and entertainment and the Ticketing Services Community to the top-level domain name space.

We believe that the .TICKETS top-level domain will add significantly to competition and differentiation in the top-level domain space, both for registrants and Internet consumers. Registrants are presently extremely limited in their choice of domain names that allow them to efficiently and effectively associate themselves with the Arts & Entertainment Community and the distribution of tickets. The availability of useful, effective, straight-forward domain names on existing top-level domains, such as .com, .net and .org, are few and far between, or may be for sale at prices that are out of reach for most. Moreover, existing leading generic top-level domains names, such as .com, .net and .org no longer require and no longer represent any real differentiation in association, purpose or content.

The .TICKETS gTLD will allow registrants to obtain useful, effective, straight-forward domain names rather than be forced to purchase, for example, their fifth, sixth or even later choice .com or .net name, which may well barely relate to the registrant’s purpose or use of the domain name and⁄or may be confusingly similar with numerous other .com or .net domain names. In addition, some existing generic top-level domain names, though newer, such as .xxx, would be inappropriate for most registrants for content associational reasons, while country-code top-level domains, though numerous, are not useful or appropriate for many registrants for geographical associational reasons. Registrants will benefit for a central market place that clearly, effectively and efficiently associates their domain name with ticketing services for arts and entertainment; Internet users will benefit from greater transparency and choice in a single market place dedicated to ticketing services and the Arts & Entertainment Community. Internet users will also benefit from this new market place and increase in competition, as less confusing and clearly-associated .TICKETS domain names will make it easier for them to obtain information about the Arts & Entertainment Community and how to buy tickets.

The .TICKETS TLD will also increase competition in the top-level domain name space by assuring that .TICKETS domain names are priced at levels that are appropriate to the vast majority of potential registrants to whom .TICKETS is targeted.

The .TICKETS TLD benefits the Arts & Entertainment Community by providing venue owners and operators, artists, producers and presenters of legitimate forms of entertainment the ability to better control the sale and distribution of their tickets.

In terms of user experience, one goal of .TICKETS is to provide users with a top-level domain name that easily allows them to recognize that the registrant seeks to have its second-level domain name (and content) associated with ticketing, the provision of ticketing services, and the Arts & Entertainment Community. We believe this will be of substantial benefit to the Internet user community, as it will allow them to more easily and more readily understand the purpose or motives of the registrant’s website or email, allowing for better, more efficient and more effective use of their time online.


Another goal of .TICKETS in terms of user experience is to protect third-party rights as well as to prevent abusive uses of a .TICKETS domain name. We intend to achieve this goal by crafting our Naming Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, and other policies to be readily understandable and easily accessible, and by making sure that our mechanisms for enforcing rights and preventing abuse (such as our Complaint Resolution Service) operate effectively, efficiently, and fairly, as well as by ensuring that they complement other ICANN-mandated rights protection mechanisms such as the UDRP.

We will provide a framework for registration of .TICKETS domains that fully support the goals, mission and purposes set forth above. Our registration framework is based on advice from our consultants, applicable laws, and a variety of other expert sources. Specifically, the planned .TICKETS framework includes these interrelated sets of agreements setting forth our policies and regulations, all of which registrants must agree to be bound by:

1) The Registrant Agreement, which registrars contracted with .TICKETS must present to registrants. This is a collateral agreement to the Registrar Registry Agreement, and will bind registrants to .TICKETS’s Acceptable Use Policy, .TICKETS’s Privacy & Whois Policy, ICANN-mandated rights protection mechanisms (including the Universal Dispute Resolution Policy (“UDRP”)), and the Complaint Resolution Service;

2) The Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”), which details the proper use of domain names that end in .TICKETS, which is incorporated by reference in the Registrant Agreement that registrants must agree to;

3) The Privacy and Whois Policy, which describes how a registrant’s personal data is to be used, which is also incorporated by reference in the Registrant Agreement;

4) The Registrar-Registry Agreement, which is the contract between .TICKETS and its ICANN-accredited registrars which sets forth, inter alia, the duties and obligations of the registrar with respect to .TICKETS registrants and the .TICKETS registry; and

5) The Naming Policy, which sets out .TICKETS’s policies governing prohibited, blocked or reserved domain names and the qualifications for registration of a .TICKETS domain name. We intend to use eligibility criteria for the .Tickets TLD, but we are cognizant of the fact that the use of eligibility criteria could significantly reduce our applicant pool. Therefore, we plan to issue clear criteria that are not overly restrictive, but which further our mission, encourage good registrant behavior and foster consumer trust by offering greater transparency in the ticketing distribution process.

These agreements and policies are designed to ensure transparent and non-discriminatory policies for the registration of .TICKETS names; fair and competitive pricing; protection of personal data and privacy; adherence by registrars and registrants to the AUP; protection of trademarks, the names of natural and juristic persons and other property rights; prevention of the registration of illegal terms; and the prevention of violations of the law. Moreover, our policies will promote competition among registrars, combat abuse of the DNS, address cybercrime, protect intellectual property rights, and align the .TICKETS top-level domain with applicable regulatory and legislative environments and Internet registry best practices.

These policies will effectively support the key mission, purposes and goals of the .TICKETS top-level domain, by allowing qualified registrants who want to associate themselves with the Arts & Entertainment Community and the provision of ticketing services to do so, while at the same time protecting third-party rights and preventing abuse.

With respect to protecting registrant privacy and confidential information, we will comply with applicable ICANN rules, including Whois policies, and all applicable laws, rules and regulations of appropriate jurisdictions. Registrant privacy and use of confidential information are set forth in our Privacy & Whois Policy. Information concerning updates and changes to the Privacy & Whois Policy will be promptly and prominently displayed on the .TICKETS Registry Network Information Center (www.nic.TICKETS) web site.

.TICKETS’s back-end registry services provider will also be required to employ industry standard procedures to prevent the unauthorized or illegal access of registrant privacy or confidential information.

With respect to users, .TICKETS’s Registration Agreement will require that all registrants must comply with any and all applicable laws, rules or regulations concerning user privacy and confidential information for applicable jurisdictions, and that failure to do so may result in suspension or loss of their .TICKETS name, and may in addition result in legal actions by appropriate authorities.

Outreach to targeted potential registrants will be important to .TICKETS achieving its projected benefits by allowing it to cost-effectively and quickly market to the most likely potential registrants, and to promote the ways in which .TICKETS will allow them to associate themselves with the Arts & Entertainment Community and the provision of ticketing services, and how their association with .TICKETS helps further their interest and that of the greater Arts & Entertainment and Ticketing Services Communities. To achieve this outreach, we intend to leverage our existing relationships with groups with an association with Shubert, our industry partners, and other arts-related and ticketing services organizations by engaging in advertising, promotion, social media outreach, and other methods of reaching potential registrants. We believe that outreach to people and organizations that already identify with the Arts & Entertainment and Ticketing Services Communities gives us the best chance of a strong launch of the top-level domain, giving us the best chance of long-term viability, and thus the best chance of fulfilling our mission and purpose.

We will keep in touch with our registrants to understand how they would like to see .TICKETS develop, and to understand how we can improve our policies, registration rules, or other aspects of our operations or administration.
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gTLD	Full Legal Name	E-mail suffix	Detail
.life	CompassRose.Life Inc.	gmail.com	View

The goal of the .LIFE top-level domain is to establish itself as the recognized choice for registrants who want to market and promote themselves and their websites to, and reach, the Internet-using public, for business, political, personal or any other purpose, through an association with the caring global community; and, as the recognized top level domain name for Internet consumers to look for to know which people, businesses, information sources or other online resource associates themselves with caring global community or are trying to communicate with them.
Compassrose .LIFE, like most organizations, takes its good reputation seriously. We are fully cognizant, for example, that artistic, political, economic and social issues, all of which can be associated with .LIFE, often provoke heated debate and are at times controversial. However, we recognize and support the free speech rights of both registrants and Internet users as fundamental rights, and believe that such free speech rights are important to the success of the .LIFE business plan, and that any plan to stifle free speech would be more harmful to .LIFE’s reputation and business success than any attempt by us to govern speech. That being said, to protect .LIFE’s reputation and the associational benefits it offers registrants and Internet consumers, we will actively promote and enforce our Acceptable Use and Abuse Prevention policies and procedures, which we believe will effectively combat improper or unlawful unprotected speech and online conduct. We believe that these mechanisms will be effective in assuring the reputation of the .LIFE top level domain, its registrants, and Internet Users, as well as the public.
The .LIFE top-level domain will be marketed to registrants who want to associate themselves, their products, services, thoughts, ideas or anything else in a positive way with the .LIFE, as well as to those who want to communicate with them in an easily identifiable way. Therefore we believe that the great majority of registrants who apply for a .LIFE domain name will do so because of its association with caring global community or because they want to reach those who do, and not for other reasons. In these ways, the .LIFE top-level domain will bring a special association with a caring global community to the top-level domain name space.
We believe that the .LIFE top-level domain will add significantly to competition and differentiation in the top-level domain space, both for registrants and Internet consumers. With respect to competition, registrants are presently extremely limited in their choice of domain names that allow them to efficiently and effectively associate themselves with a caring global community. The availability of useful, effective, straight-forward domain names on existing top-level domains, such as .com, .net and .org, are few and far between, or may be for sale at prices that are out of reach for most. .LIFE will allow registrants to obtain useful, effective, straight-forward domain names rather than be forced to purchase, for example, their fifth, sixth or even later choice .com or .net name, which may well barely relate to the registrant’s purpose or use of the domain name and⁄or may be confusingly similar with numerous other .com or .net domain names. In addition, some existing generic top-level domain names, though newer, such as .xxx, may be inappropriate for most registrants for content associational reasons, while country-code top-level domains, though numerous, are not useful or appropriate for many registrants for geographical associational reasons. Thus, .LIFE will increase competition for registrants who want a domain name that clearly, effectively and efficiently associates them with a caring global community for their domain name purposes as well as for those registrants who want to reach Internet users who identify with a caring global community.
.LIFE will also increase pricing competition in the top-level domain name space by assuring that .LIFE domain names are priced at levels that are appropriate to the vast majority of potential registrants to whom .LIFE is targeted.
Internet consumers also benefit from this increase in competition, as less confusing and clearly associated .LIFE domain names will make it easier for them to know that the owner of the second-level domain name seeks to associate with a caring global community.
Likewise, .LIFE will significantly help increase differentiation in the top level domain space. Existing leading generic top level domains names, such as .com, .net and .org no longer require and no longer represent any real differentiation in association, purpose or content. Newer top level domains, such as .xxx, .aero and .museum, do represent differentiation, but are either inappropriate or unavailable to most prospective registrants at whom .LIFE is targeted. .LIFE will further increase differentiation by allowing registrants to be associated, and consumers to know that the registrant seeks to associate with a caring global community.
In terms of user experience, a goal of .LIFE is to provide users with a top-level domain name that easily allows them to recognize that the registrant seeks to have its second-level domain name (and content) associated with a caring global community. We believe this will be of substantial benefit to the Internet user community, as it will allow them to more easily and more readily understand the purpose or motives of the registrant’s website or email, allowing for better, more efficient and more effective use of their time online.
Another goal of .LIFE in terms of user experience is to protect third-party rights as well as to prevent abusive uses of a .LIFE domain name. We intend to achieve this goal by crafting our Naming Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, and other policies to be readily understandable and easily accessible, and by making sure that our mechanisms for enforcing rights and preventing abuse (such as our Complaint Resolution Service) operate effectively, efficiently, and fairly, as well as by ensuring that they work symbiotically with other ICANN-mandated rights protection mechanisms such as the UDRP.
We have crafted a draft framework for registration of .LIFE domains that fully support the goals, mission and purposes set forth above. Our draft registration framework is based on advice from ICANN, WIPO, applicable laws, and a variety of other expert sources. Specifically, the .LIFE draft framework includes these interrelated sets of agreements setting forth our policies and regulations, all of which registrants must agree to be bound by:
• The Registrant Agreement, which registrars contracted with .LIFE must present to registrants. This is a collateral agreement to the Registrar Registry Agreement (detailed below), and will bind registrants to .LIFE’s Acceptable Use Policy (as detailed below), .LIFE’s Privacy & Whois Policy (detailed below), ICANN-mandated rights protection mechanisms (including the Universal Dispute Resolution Policy (“UDRP”), and the Complaint Resolution Service;
• The Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”), which details the proper use of domain names that end in .LIFE, which is incorporated by reference in the Registrant Agreement that registrants must agree to;
• The Privacy and Whois Policy, which describes how a registrant’s personal data is to be used, which is also incorporated by reference in the Registrant Agreement;
• The Registrar-Registry Agreement, which is the contract between .LIFE and its ICANN-accredited registrars which sets forth, inter alia, the duties and obligations of the registrar with respect to .LIFE registrants and the .LIFE registry; and
• The Naming Policy, which sets out .LIFE’s policies governing prohibited, blocked or reserved domain names.
These agreements and policies are designed to ensure transparent and non-discriminatory policies for the registration of .LIFE names; fair and competitive pricing; protection of personal data and privacy; adherence by registrars and registrants to the AUP; protection of trademarks, the names of natural and juristic persons and other property rights; prevention of the registration of illegal terms; and the prevention violations of the law. Moreover, our policies promote competition among registrars, combat abuse of the DNS, address cybercrime, protect intellectual property rights, and align the .LIFE top-level domain with applicable regulatory and legislative environments and Internet registry best practices.
These policies will effectively support the key mission, purposes and goals of the .LIFE top-level domain, which is to allow registrants who want to associate themselves with a caring global community, while at the same time protecting third-party rights and preventing abuse.
We specifically examined more restrictive registration policies, such as limiting registration to members of organizations with a specific in a caring global community. We rejected such limitations because they would interfere with .LIFE’s primary mission, purpose and goals – which is to encourage as many registrants as possible to associate themselves with the a caring global community for any legal purpose. Factors that we took into account when considering a more restrictive registration policy included:

• Our recognition that registrants of a .LIFE domain name will self-select because they have an interest in a caring global community, and this fact will naturally reduce the number of potential registrants; and,
• Because restrictive policies such as, for example, requiring membership in a specific organization or organizations, would exclude many legitimate registrants from obtaining a .LIFE domain name. For example, and by way of illustration, if membership of an organization were required for registration, businesses and charitable organizations that would find a .LIFE top-level domain name an effective marketing tool would be excluded from registering a .LIFE domain name as they might not be eligible to be members in an organization that accepted only natural persons for membership.
With respect to protecting registrant privacy and confidential information, we will comply with applicable ICANN rules, including Whois policies, and all applicable laws, rules and regulations of appropriate jurisdictions. Registrant privacy and use of confidential information are set forth in our Privacy & Whois Policy. Information concerning updates and changes to the Privacy & Whois Policy will be promptly and prominently displayed on the .LIFE web site.
.LIFE’s back-end registry services provider will also be required to employ industry standard procedures to prevent the unauthorized or illegal access of registrant privacy or confidential information.
With respect to users, .LIFE’s Registration Agreement will require that all registrants must comply with any and all applicable laws, rules or regulations concerning user privacy and confidential information for applicable jurisdictions, and that failure to do so may result in suspension or loss of their .LIFE name, and may in addition result in legal actions by appropriate authorities.
Outreach and communications will both be important to .LIFE achieving its projected benefits.
Outreach to targeted potential registrants will be important to .LIFE achieving its projected benefits by allowing it to cost-effectively and quickly market to the most likely potential registrants, and to promote the ways in which .LIFE will allow them to associate themselves with the a caring global community, and how their association with .LIFE helps further their interest and that of a caring global community. To achieve this outreach, we intend to leverage our existing relationships with groups with an association with .LIFE, as well as engage in advertising, promotion, social media outreach, and other methods of reaching potential registrants. .LIFE believes that outreach to people and organizations that already identify with a caring global community give it the best chance of launching the top-level domain as strongly as possible, giving it the best chance of long-term viability, and thus the best chance of providing its projected benefits to registrants of a positive association with a caring global community, while at the same time promoting a caring global community.
Communications will be as important to .LIFE achieving its projected benefits as outreach. .LIFE will be an open top-level domain, available to anyone interested in having a .LIFE domain name, and .LIFE’s best chance of establishing itself as a viable top-level domain is to have as many potential registrants as possible know about .LIFE and why a .LIFE domain name may be right for them. However, many potential registrants for .LIFE domain names who may want to associate their Internet presence with the a caring global community, or use a .LIFE domain name to communicate with those who do, will be missed by .LIFE’s direct outreach efforts. Communications, in particular communication via social networks and blogs, will be helpful in reaching these potential registrants.
Communications will help .LIFE realize its goal of serving registrants world wide. Given our finite marketing resources, communications through free resources, such as social networks and blogs will allow us to promote .LIFE to members of the international community who want a domain name that associates them with a caring global community, or use a .LIFE domain name to communicate with those who do.
Communications will help .LIFE keep in touch with its registrants, to understand how they would like to see .LIFE develop, and to understand how we can improve our policies, registration rules, or other aspects of our operations or administration.