Dot Gay Alliance Announc Plans for TLD, Profs to Fund LGBT Civil Rights

Contents:

• DOMA NAM
• TODAY'S THE DAY TO GO DOT-GAY
• BEE IS NOT GAY ENOUGH!
• DOT GAY: WHAT ARE THE IMPLITNS?
• REGISTER YOUR DOMA
• 3 WAYS OF G THE DOMA
• LET YOUR .GAY DO THE TALKG
• DOMAS ARE CHANGG THE WORLD!
• REGISTER YOUR DOMA NAME
• CELEBRAT SEND ANNIVERSARY
• DOT GAY IS HERE TO QUEER THIS (CYBER)SPACE
• DOT GAY ALLIANCE

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Dotgay LLC - Communy Applitn.

dotgay LLC.

Stt Sez is the CEO of dotgay LLC and selected Nstar to provi back-end registry servic. [4] The pany is affiliated wh the Internatnal Gay & Lbian Travel Associatn (IGLTA), Natnal Gay & Lbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) and the Natnal Gay & Lbian Chamber of Commerce, New York (NGLCCNY) and is also an LGBTBE Certified enty. Wh muny oversight and transparency, dotgay LLC planned to donate 67% of the profs generated om the sal of doma nam to non-prof LGBT anizatns.

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Dotgay LLC’s registratn polici will clu participatn by "Authentitn Partners", which will be a global work of LGBTQIA membership anizatns and muny groups. Eligibily is termed through formal membership wh any of dotgay LLC’s Authentitn Partners (AP) om the muny.

In December 2012 dotgay LLC began an outreach mpaign to potential Authentitn Partners as scribed their applitn. Dot Gay Alliance. It seems the prevly announced Dot Gay Alliance is funct, as did not apply for the TLD unr this name.

Sdi Arabia's Communitns and Informatn Technology Commissn (CITC) filed an objectn agast the TLD, cg that "Many societi and cultur nsir homosexualy to be ntrary to their culture, moraly or relign. The creatn of a gTLD strg which promot homosexualy will be offensive to the societi and cultur. He regniz that some parti may ntue to oppose or be offend by such inti and behavr but argu that a TLD will create a clearly leated space where those offendg parti will know that the ntent will clu gay-related material and n therefore avoid the offensive webs.

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In January 2015, a mtee of ICANN's board of directors overturned a Communy Prry Evaluatn that ially rejected dotgay LLC's requt for the gTLD. Dotgay's CPE was turned down October 2014 after the Enomist Intelligence Un emed the pany's proposed muny was too broad to be scribed as "gay.

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" This was bee they nsistently referenced the LGBTQIA muny as their "gay" muny, when fact the wir muny do not necsarily intify as "gay.

The EIU performed a new Communy Prry Evaluatn for dotgay's gTLD nsiratn.

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From there, dotgay LLC began g a a formal ICANN procs to reevaluate and potentially overturn operatnal errors, which is the Requt for Rensiratn. "It should be noted that dotgay LLC has been through both the CPE and Rensiratn procs twice.

I want to make clear that the nial of the Requt for Rensiratn is not a statement about the validy of dotgay LLC's applitn or dotgay LLC's supporters. The cisn means that the BGC did not fd that the CPE procs for dotgay, LLC's applitn vlated any ICANN polici or procr. On April 1, 2015, the Q Center, a muny anizatn loted Portland, Oregon and only objector to Dotgay's bid, retracted s objectn.

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The Q Center exprsed that the prr board and management enacted the opposn and that the anizatn currently do not opposed Dotgay's bid, statg: "Until such time, please accept this notice as a requt to void the opposn letter bearg the Q Center name. "[23] The Q Center later retracted s retractn, notg that s send lg on the matter was rponse to lobbyg by the Dotgay LLC's Jamie Baxer, they clarified the history, statg: "Durg that time Q Center was a perd of major transn and the board uld not prrize Mr.

Fally, June 2015, the Q Center Board stood by s ial opposn to the dotgay LLC muny bid, reeratg: "[W]e oppose the closed registratn mol and advote that the term “gay, ” while meangful and reprentative of some members of our LGBTQ muni, do not aquately reprent the diversy of sexual and genr mory muni and cultur as a whole. The Internatnal Lbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) filed a muny objectn agast every applint other than dotgay LLC, and also filed an objectn agast [25] ILGA’s objectns were filed on the grounds that Standard applitns for strgs associated wh the gay muny did not offer the appropriate protectns to safeguard agast abe and mise.

Metroplex Republins of Dallas filed a muny objectn agast the dotgay LLC applitn.

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Acrdg to Schlk, "while the nservative segment, wh which Metroplex claims associatn, is a segment of the clearly leated gay muny, is not a clearly leated muny and of self. Schlk also not that “the applitn by dotgay for the strg do not create a likelihood of material triment to the rights or terts of the nservative segment of the LGBTQ muny. Nothg the operatnal mol of the strg sts doubt on dotgay's claim that the strg will be operated strict polil ntraly.

GOProud, a gay lobby group, also filed a muny objectn agast the dotgay LLC applitn, but was rejected by the ICC for beg over the word lim allowed for an objectn.

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↑ About dotgay. ↑ AuthentitnPatners, dotGay. About Dot Gay Alliance.

↑ Dot Gay Alliance Announc Plan To Create Web Addrs. ↑ Gay General Comment,. ↑ Why Kickg Out The Gay Communy was Right, DomaInce.

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↑ is gay enough after all? ↑ Will dotgays Send ICANN Panel give the doma seeks. ↑, Gay Flunks Communy Review for Send Time,.

↑ Only Gay Communy Group to Oppose Dotgay Bid for TLD Revers Posn. bee is not gay enough! The top-level doma is the only doma extensn that bans and remov hate, cludg homophobia and transphobia, as well as donat 20% of every name registered to LGBTQ+ advocy groups.

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It was a dynamic aln ssn on eedom of exprsn and eedom of the media on the ter that Schubert announced that the doma name, “dot gay” was the pipele. The doma name hop to rporate all lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, tersex and queer s unr one doma. I’m not sure everyone the lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, tersex and queer muny necsarily intify wh the term “gay”.

He stated that “as a gay man, I hate the word queer” – given, some are not fortable wh this term, or do not wish to reclaim as their own…but then he went on to ment that: “I don’t really re about the rt” i.

DOT GAY IS HERE TO QUEER THIS (CYBER)SPACE

The term queer has been reclaimed by the LGBTIQ muny and now is ed as an clive and affirmative means to intifyg all people who are affected by heterosexism and homophobia. But what are the implitns of dot gay?

I unrstand that Schubert’s tentn was that dot gay be a “muny applitn” but what if is also an applitn that is employed for discrimatn? SPI Marketg/dotgay LLC Print and Founr Stt Sez.

Gay cis. If the pany dotgay LLC is succsful their bid, they will bee the owner of the first Inter doma to provi an onle space exclively for gays that giv back two-thirds of s take to LGBT non-profs. "We realized an credible opportuny and rource to lk and support the global LGBT muny would slip through our hands, so we ma the vtment , to velop as a valuable rource vers jt a piece of real tate, " SPI Marketg/dotgay LLC Print and Founr Stt Sez told EDGE.

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Although the Inter has played a central role the muny for many years by providg a space to share rmatn, meet other muny members and grow LGBT-owned bs, creatg a gay doma had never been nceived of until recently. This is exactly what dotgay LLC hop to acplish. Sez, CEO and 90 percent owner of dotgay LLC, is the founr of SPI Marketg, a leadg LGBT agency wh more than 16 years of service on behalf of rporate and nonprof clients.