gTLD	Full Legal Name	E-mail suffix	Detail
.NGO	Public Interest Registry	pir.org	View

PIR is a NGO, and thereby part of the NGO Community. PIR as a NGO has extensive gTLD management experience via the .ORG gTLD. PIR a supporting organization to the Internet Society (ISOC) and is committed to supporting the Internet Society’s (ISOC) mission stated below.

History of PIR’s Relationship to the NGO Community
In January 2003, PIR, assumed responsibility for operating .ORG and maintaining the authoritative database of all .ORG domains.

Created in 1984, .ORG is one of the Internetʹs original seven top-level domains (TLDs), along with .com, .net, etc. Although it is ʺopenʺ and ʺunrestrictedʺ, .ORG has been the domain of choice for organizations dedicated to serving the public interest. The high regard of these well-intentioned organizations was soon conferred to this domain, and today .ORG is considered around the world to be the domain of trust.

Public Interest Registry’s (PIR) primary activity is to maintain the .ORG domain registry as the exemplary top level domain (TLD) registry service, by advocating for higher standards of Internet security, safety and reliability. PIR’s mission is to facilitate the effective use of a global Internet among non-commercial and other Internet users worldwide. In its relationship with the ISOC, (reference Evaluation Questions #9a and #9b), PIR is committed to supporting ISOC’s goals of encouraging the evolution of the Internet as research, education and communication infrastructure equally accessible to the global non-commercial, NGO and nonprofit community. PIR’s activities also include funding educational programs focused on expanding the knowledge and ability of non-commercial, NGO and nonprofit organizations located in technologically deprived areas of the world to more efficiently and effectively use the Internet as a tool to better accomplish their important mission.

The 2003 transition of .ORG from the previous operator to PIR was the largest transfer in Internet history. More than 2.6 million domains were transferred in about a day, without negatively impacting any .ORG registrant or website.

Since 2003, PIR has been connected with NGOs through our management of .ORG, and recently in preparation for our pursuit of the .NGO gTLD domain, we have worked closely with the NGO Community to develop the requirements and specification for the proposed .NGO gTLD.

Current Relationship to the NGO Community
PIR is a strong supporter of NGOs in both a direct role as manager of the .ORG gTLD and through other efforts, including:
• A ʺStrategic and Sponsoring Partnerʺ of NTEN, the Non-Profit Technology Network of 10,000 members and over 30,000 participants in the community, covering 126 countries. NTEN aspires to a world where all nonprofit organizations use technology skillfully and confidently to meet community needs and fulfill their missions.
• Making financial contributions to various organizations, such as the NCUC (Non Commercial Constituency of ICANN) and Centr. For NCUC, annual donations have been in the $5,000 to $15,000 range every year since PIR assumed operations of the .ORG registry.
• In December 2005, PIR sponsored a symposium at the Nelson Mandela Center in Cape Town, South Africa bringing in various Internet leaders in Africa to discuss the needs of the Internet in Africa.
• In response to Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans, Louisiana, PIR donated $1 for every new create for a limited time. The final donation was over $100,000 to the Red Cross.
• In response to JapanʹsTsunami disaster, a 3 month program was rolled out to waive renewal fees for Japanese domain name holders, in order to help those affected and unable to renew their .ORG domains.

Within the community, there is a wide appreciation of PIR’s role as an advocate of “do good” for the Internet at large, and in many countries around the world there is a general perception that .ORG domains are more trusted than other domains. At the time of application submission, PIR manages nearly 10 million .ORG domains, and is seen to do so in an exemplary way. We are very happy to be judged on this reputation.

PIR has over 500 letters of support from the NGO Community endorsing its application for .NGO. PIR will continue outreach to the community and anticipates receipt of additional support letters from NGOs throughout the ICANN application evaluation process. Specific recognition of PIR’s efforts to support the nonprofit community includes:
• “As a not-for-profit corporation, we believe that being part of the .org domain has done much to reinforce MITRE’s identity as an organization chartered to work in the public interest. [Thanks to PIR’s] continuing work to enhance the .org domain.ʺ - Al Grasso, President and CEO, The MITRE Corporation (the first .ORG registrant).
• “We recognize and applaud PIRʹs long-standing commitment to the non-profit community since taking over the management of .ORG.” - Lisa Vogt, APR, Director of Marketing & Communications, SOS Children’s Villages – USA.

PIR has conducted outreach, worked with established relationships, and developed new types of relationships which will facilitate the delivery of the .NGO domain and related services to the NGO Community. Our discussions and outreach have included NGOs in several countries across Asia, Europe, North America, South America⁄Latin America, and Africa as well as many different segments of the NGO Community to ensure wide acceptance and adoption of our proposed gTLD domain and related services. The segments include but are not limited to agriculture, environment, arts⁄culture, charitable services, human rights, humanitarian, and advocacy for a range of issues affecting societal development.

Accountability to the NGO Community
By offering .NGO as a secure and well-managed domain of trust uniquely for eligible NGOs, PIR believes that NGOs can benefit from the Internet and our specific services as a means to safely and reliably reach out to the community and sponsors. PIR will be accountable to the NGO Community by:
• A NGO Community input process soliciting input from the community through the NGO Advisory Council drawn from the community and accepting a broad range of input to stay current on the issues of importance to the community and manage the NGO verification process;
• Creating and marketing .NGO as a distinctive place on the Internet for NGOs to differentiate and promote their organization;
• Establishing community programs to support capacity building of NGOs with technical and educational platforms;
• Enforcing registration policies that elevate the integrity of the domains in the .NGO gTLD name space, soliciting input from the NGO Community;
• Easing discovery and promotion through the creation, management and promotion of the .NGO gTLD;
• Offering registration from a proven, scalable registry platform that can ensure 100% DNS availability;
• Delivering a challenge process for the NGO Community to dispute the legitimacy of a .NGO registrant or its activity on a .NGO domain; and,
• As a community priority gTLD, PIR is committing to manage the .NGO domain with participation of the community. Failing to do that would put our registry contract in jeopardy.

PIR is in an excellent position to provide such support to the NGO Community given documented experience running a stable and trusted registry. PIR holds a track record demonstrating good intent to the global community by being a leader in activities such as implementation of anti-abuse policies, DNSSEC, active participation in numerous public interest events, etc.

gTLD	Full Legal Name	E-mail suffix	Detail
.med	HEXAP SAS	hexap.com	View

1. ETHICS

HEXAP is a limited liability company that has been founded by health care
professionals who have sworn by the Hippocratic Oath, setting the duties of
qualified professionals with patients and respect for colleagues. They worked
with over 12.000 entities and leading healthcare providers over these last 30
years, including but not limited to Councils, Medical Colleges, Academics,
medical publishers, scientific organizations, medical suppliers, industries,
web 2.0 communities, health care social media platforms, hospitals, and
universities.

Relying on the unparalleled experience of HEXAPʹs predecessors and founders in
providing Internet-based solutions for the health care sector, HEXAP intends
the .MED extension to be a community-based gTLD. For this matter, the
applicant is appointed and supported by various organizations representing
many sectors, sub-sectors and branches of the health care work forces and
industry. Furthermore, these supports come from both traditional institutions
and the Internet web 2.0 communities from abroad: the .MED application thus
brings together different generations and cultures of medical stakeholders.
These organizations will work closely with the applicant in order to implement
the .MED gTLD in the manner described in Q18.

The .MED gTLD is guided by the sense of ethics that HEXAPʹs founders have
consistently demonstrated in their business dealings, and reinforced by the
technical expertise renowned among partners and clients. Furthermore, HEXAPʹs
founders are medical practitioners who are unaffiliated with any medical or
pharmaceutical company or organization. This continuous commitment guarantees
that the .MED gTLD will be operating independently from influences from
industry.

2. ENDORSEMENTS

Various organizations and companies have endorsed the .MED application by
HEXAP, which clearly underlines a strong need and demand for having an
unambiguous platform for quality health care information, products and
services. Relying on the experience and expertise of HEXAPʹs founders and
predecessors in similar projects, which have been applauded by medical
professionals, these organizations and companies have endorsed HEXAPʹs plans
for this new and unique name space that will not only serve the needs,
requirements and demand from the targeted medical community, but also the need
for patients to find reliable sources when seeking such information, products
and services.

2.1. FDI WORLD DENTAL FEDERATION (FDI), SWITZERLAND

http:⁄⁄www.fdiworldental.org - The FDI is an international federation of
approximately 200 national dental associations and specialist groups,
including the American Dental Association (ADA). The FDI is a member of the
World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA http:⁄⁄www.whpa.org); an alliance of
dentists, doctors, nurses and pharmacists. WHPA represents more than 20
million health care professionals worldwide and assembles essential knowledge
and experience from key health care professions. The FDI currently has a
membership of approximately 200 member associations from more than 130
countries, representing more than 1 million dentists globally.

2.2. CONSEIL NATIONAL DE LʹORDRE DES MEDECINS, FRANCE

http:⁄⁄www.conseil-national.medecin.fr - The French Medical Order of
physicians is the national authority and is particularly involved in
Information Technology and eHealth. It and has published in 2011 a Code of
Ethics on the Internet (ʺDeontologie Medicale sur le Webʺ http:⁄⁄goo.gl⁄qFqDq
). This white paper defines guidelines for online good medical practices and
makes a clear reference to the .MED gTLD with the intention to reconsider its
domain name policy for physicians. It also founded in 1971 the European
Council of Medical Orders ( http:⁄⁄www.ceom-ecmo.eu⁄en ) and is represented by
its General Secretary since 2011. The Order is regulating about 265,000
physicians.

2.3. CONSEIL NATIONAL DE LʹORDRE DES CHIRURGIENS-DENTISTES, FRANCE

http:⁄⁄www.ordre-chirurgiens-dentistes.fr - For more than 13 years the French
Dental Surgeons Order has maintained a transposition of the Code of Ethics on
the Internet dedicated to online information publishing (http:⁄⁄goo.gl⁄JNxQo).
The Order also released guidelines for patients regarding dental information
web browsing (http:⁄⁄goo.gl⁄4Y3Y3). The Order has founded in 2000 the
Federation of Dental Competent Authorities
(http:⁄⁄www.fedcar.eu⁄index.php?lang=en) and is the General Secretary as of
2011. The Order is regulating close to 50,000 dental surgeons.

2.4. CONSEIL NATIONAL DE LʹORDRE DES SAGES-FEMMES, FRANCE

French Chamber of Midwives - http:⁄⁄www.ordre-sages-femmes.fr⁄
The Order is regulating 23,365 practitioners as of September, 2011.

2.5. ACADEMIE NATIONALE DE CHIRURGIE DENTAIRE, FRANCE

http:⁄⁄www.academiedentaire.fr - The French National Academy of Dental Surgery
has a current total membership of 317 doctors.

2.6. STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - MEDICINE X, USA

http:⁄⁄medicinex.stanford.edu - Medicine X is a catalyst for new ideas about
the future of medicine and health care. Under the direction of Dr. Larry Chu,
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Medicine X is a project of the Stanford AIM
Lab.

2.7. MAYO CLINIC CENTER FOR SOCIAL MEDIA, USA

http:⁄⁄socialmedia.mayoclinic.org⁄ - Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit worldwide
leader in medical care, research and education for people from all walks of
life. The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media exists to improve health
globally by accelerating effective application of social media tools
throughout Mayo Clinic and spurring broader and deeper engagement in social
media by hospitals, medical professionals and patients.

2.8. CANCER CAMPUS, FRANCE

http:⁄⁄www.cancer-campus.com - Cancer Campus is creating an environment, with
particular emphasis on the field of cancerology, in which innovative life
science and healthcare companies can establish themselves and expand.

2.9. GLOBAL MEDIA SANTE, FRANCE

http:⁄⁄www.gmsante.fr - Communication group specializing in the health field.

2.10. RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN MEDICAL CENTRE, NETHERLANDS

http:⁄⁄www.radboudreshapecenter.com⁄

2.11. BUZZMED, USA

http:⁄⁄buzzmed.net⁄ - Current total membership of 15,000 doctors.

2.12. DOCTORS.NET.UK, UNITED KINGDOM

http:⁄⁄www.doctors.net.uk⁄ - Professional service available to UK-registered
doctors in primary and free accredited education allowing doctors to maintain
Continuing Professional Development. It has a current total membership of
192,000 doctors.

2.13. COLIQUIO, GERMANY

http:⁄⁄www.coliquio.de - Coliquio is already used by over 57,000 physicians
from all disciplines and is one of the most active German physicians networks.

2.14. EUGENOL, FRANCE

http:⁄⁄www.eugenol.com - First French online community for healthcare
professionals, Eugenol allows dentists to manage their network, to broadcast
surgery casesʹ videos, to vote or advise products, to submit scientific
articles, to exchange about day to day matters, etc. Eugenol has a current
total membership of 41,000 dentists.

2.15. CONSENSUS, FRANCE

http:⁄⁄www.consensus-online.fr - Consensus has a current total membership of
4,500 cardiologists.

2.16. CARENITY, FRANCE

http:⁄⁄www.carenity.com - Carenity is the first french social network
dedicated to patients suffereing from chronic diseases. Launched in 2011, it
counts 7,000 active users and 30 different patients communities.

2.17. APRES MON CANCER DU SEIN, FRANCE

http:⁄⁄catherinecerisey.wordpress.com - Notorious french e-patient blog about
breast cancer.