Dot Gay Alliance
Dot Gay Alliance is one of the companies applying to ICANN to become the registry operator of the proposed .gay generic top level domain name (gTLD). Dot Gay Alliance was founded by Joe Dolce, who also serves as Executive Director of the company. If approved by ICANN, Dot Gay Alliance plans to donate 51% of its revenues generated from selling .gay domain names to LGBT civil rights organizations worldwide. The company selected Minds + Machines to provide back-end registry services for the .gay string.[1] [2]
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| Type: | Privately held |
| Industry: | Registry |
| Founded: | 2009 |
| Founder(s): | Joe Dolce |
| Headquarters: | New York |
| Country: | USA |
| Email: | jd[at]dotgayalliance.com |
| Website: | www.dotgayalliance.com |
| Facebook: | Dot-Gay-Alliance |
| Twitter: |  Gay Alliance @Dot Gay Alliance
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| Key People | |
| Joe Dolce, Founder & Executive Director Paula Ettelbrick, Philanthropic Advisor | |
Mission
Dot Gay Alliance aims to raise money by operating the .gay gTLD, and to fight for the rights of the members of the LGBT community worldwide. [3]
Endorsements
The Dot Gay Alliance initiative is endorsed by the following prominent individuals:[4]
- 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
- Paula Ettelbrick, Civil rights lawyer, advocate, and non-profit executive
- Michelle Kristel, Executive Director of In The Life Media
- Sunil Babu Pant, the first openly gay member of the Nepal Parliament
Competitors
Dot Gay Alliance is competing with dotgay LLC to gain the approval from ICANN to operate the .gay domain name string. Dolce commented on one of the leaders of dotgay LLC particularly Alexander Shubert who is not gay. Dolce said, "If you’re launching a purely for-profit venture called dotGay and you are heterosexual, then you are in a way continuing a legacy of straight people earning a lot of money off of gay people that has gone on. I want to create a community which is run by the community and gives money back to the community." [5]