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==Application Details==

==Application Details==

The following is excerpted from the applicant's response to question #18:

The following is excerpted from the applicant's response to question #18:

"ocated in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (“MIT” or the “Institute”) is a world-class educational institution which counts teaching, research, and community service among its primary purposes. MIT includes five schools, one college, and one joint program comprising a total of thirty-two (32) academic departments; and the Institute is devoted to the advancement of knowledge and education of students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship. MIT is dedicated to providing its students with an education that combines rigorous academic study and the excitement of discovery with the support and intellectual stimulation of a diverse campus community. Moreover, MIT solidly supports nonprofit organizations that address local challenges such as meeting the needs of underserved populations, youth development, and environmental sustainability.  

"Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (“MIT” or the “Institute”) is a world-class educational institution which counts teaching, research, and community service among its primary purposes. MIT includes five schools, one college, and one joint program comprising a total of thirty-two (32) academic departments; and the Institute is devoted to the advancement of knowledge and education of students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship. MIT is dedicated to providing its students with an education that combines rigorous academic study and the excitement of discovery with the support and intellectual stimulation of a diverse campus community. Moreover, MIT solidly supports nonprofit organizations that address local challenges such as meeting the needs of underserved populations, youth development, and environmental sustainability.  

Since its founding in 1861, MIT has strongly emphasized scientific and technological research; and MIT researchers have spawned a host of scientific advances, including the creation of modern food preservation processes, the first chemical synthesis of penicillin and vitamin A, the development of inertial guidance systems, modern technologies for artificial limbs, high-speed photography, and the magnetic core memory that made possible the development of digital computers. Deploying the “.mit” TLD as a unique way to identify MIT and its sub-units is intended to benefit the inner workings of MIT, but also to allow MIT to magnify its presence throughout the world. MIT believes that the “.mit” TLD will intimately connect its seven (7) schools, thirty-two (32) academic departments, and approximately one hundred forty-seven (147) administrative units. (Incidentally, for at least the first three (3) years of the MIT’s TLD program, MIT will permit only certain groups and persons, collectively defined as “eligible registrants” and described in the response to Question 18(b), to register “.mit” domains.) By enhancing the sense of familiarity and unity among eligible registrants (and members of the MIT community, as a whole), the “.mit” TLD will facilitate the Institute’s day-to-day operations, which represent the underpinnings of MIT’s educational and research programs. Ideally, the “.mit” TLD program will afford registrants a reliable and intriguing way to identify themselves as associated with MIT and cultivate their identity as part of the larger MIT community. MIT is confident that most eligible persons and groups will seize the opportunity to carve out a niche within the “.mit” TLD and that this type of response will increase the vibrancy and the cohesiveness of MIT.

Since its founding in 1861, MIT has strongly emphasized scientific and technological research; and MIT researchers have spawned a host of scientific advances, including the creation of modern food preservation processes, the first chemical synthesis of penicillin and vitamin A, the development of inertial guidance systems, modern technologies for artificial limbs, high-speed photography, and the magnetic core memory that made possible the development of digital computers. Deploying the “.mit” TLD as a unique way to identify MIT and its sub-units is intended to benefit the inner workings of MIT, but also to allow MIT to magnify its presence throughout the world. MIT believes that the “.mit” TLD will intimately connect its seven (7) schools, thirty-two (32) academic departments, and approximately one hundred forty-seven (147) administrative units. (Incidentally, for at least the first three (3) years of the MIT’s TLD program, MIT will permit only certain groups and persons, collectively defined as “eligible registrants” and described in the response to Question 18(b), to register “.mit” domains.) By enhancing the sense of familiarity and unity among eligible registrants (and members of the MIT community, as a whole), the “.mit” TLD will facilitate the Institute’s day-to-day operations, which represent the underpinnings of MIT’s educational and research programs. Ideally, the “.mit” TLD program will afford registrants a reliable and intriguing way to identify themselves as associated with MIT and cultivate their identity as part of the larger MIT community. MIT is confident that most eligible persons and groups will seize the opportunity to carve out a niche within the “.mit” TLD and that this type of response will increase the vibrancy and the cohesiveness of MIT.