.gay
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| Status: | Proposed |
| Manager: | Dot Gay Alliance dotgay LLC |
| Registry Provider: | Minds + Machines (Dot Gay Alliance) Neustar (dotgay LLC) |
| Type: | Community gTLD |
| Community TLD: | LGBT community |
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.gay is a new generic top level domain name (gTLD) proposal to ICANN by two contending applicants, the Dot Gay Alliance and dotgay LLC. The proposed .gay string is dedicated for the LGBT community.
Scott Seitz is the CEO of dotGay LLC and selected Neustar to provide back-end registry services. The company is affiliated with the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA), National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) and the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, New York (NGLCCNY). dotgay LLC plans to donate 67% of the revenue generated from the sales of .gay domain names to non-profit LGBT organizations.[1]
On the other hand, Joe Dolce is the Founder and Executive Director of Dot Gay and Minds + Machines will serve as its registry service provider.[2]The company plans to use the revenue generated from .gay TLD to fund GLBT rights groups worldwide. Its initiative is supported by the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Nepal, Sunil Babu Pant, New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Daniel O'Donnell, Member of New York State Assembly, Edmund White, Award-winning author and professor of Creative Writing, Princeton University and Paula Ettelbrick, Civil rights lawyer, advocate, and non-profit executive. [3]
Possible GAC Objections edit
A report from Time Techland quoted a statement from Milton Mueller, a Syracuse University professor and ICANN expert that the two contenders for the .gay TLD might face objections among the members of ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) from conservative Arab nations. Mueller's statement reads, "It is clear from conversations with government officials in a couple of conservative Arab countries that they object to .gay." [4]