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Public Interest Commitments

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Public Interest Commitments (PICs) as related to new gTLD applicants and the Registry Agreement they are to sign, is a term and creation directly from ICANN, first suggested on February 5th, 2013, in ICANN's revised new registry agreement that it opened for public comments.

PICs are voluntary amendments that applicants can create, sign, and undertake along with the general registry agreement in order to hold their registry operations to certain standards. They seem to originally have been developed as a way to allow applicants to appease GAC members that may be concerned about how their application stands as is, or how ICANN will be able to ensure a potential registry remains compliant with its aspirations and mandate as it defined in its summary of its proposed operations in the TLD application. As is, prior to PICs, there was no clear way of defining operating procedures when moving from the long form essays in the TLD application to the Registry Agreement.

For example, if an applicant expresses a desire to restrict registration to a certain group of professionals, such as doctors, lawyers, etc., the applicant can create a PIC to underline this and hold their future registry to that standard. If the applicant did not originally intend to create such restrictions as defined in its TLD application, but it has received communication from the GAC that the supporting organization intends to oppose their application to the ICANN Board without such language, then the PIC can be added as an appeal to those governments.

Timeline edit

It is a controversial topic that many applicants think was created quickly, with no outside input, and is presented in such a way that they feel compelled to make a decision without fully understanding the proposal. It seems to apply to a small subset of applicants, as only 145 of 1,409 strings were flagged by GAC Early Warnings, the primary target for PICs.[1] The dispute resolution procedure, the Public Interest Commitment Dispute Resolution Process or PICDRP, has yet to be defined. Applicants were given one month, until March 5th, to submit their PICs. It seemed to conflict with other deadlines, such as the end of objection filling just a week later, so, "potential objectors would have to decide whether to file their objections based on PICs that have been published for just one week and that could be amended post-deadline."[1][2]

ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé noted around the imminent closing of the PIC submission date that this issue has the potential for pushing back the receipt of GAC advice and therefore the entire TLD implementation schedule, which is tightly fixed and aiming to recommend the first TLDs for delegation by April 23rd. ICANN will not recommend TLDs for implementation without the GAC's final advice, and the GAC seems to be placing a great import on the submission of PICs, to which the applicants remain wary.[3]

Stakeholder Reactions edit

ICANN's Registry Stakeholder Group is very much opposed to the PICs and the rest of the proposed Registry Agreement, which includes provisions to only allow new registries to work with registrars that are party to their own new registrar accreditation agreement, which has yet to be settled upon. TLD applicants have argued that they are being used as a "wedge" to force registrars into signing a still non-existent agreement. The RySg has said, the Registry Agreement “contains so many serious and fundamental flaws that it should be withdrawn in its entirety." The U.S. Governement's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, from which ICANN is given its mandate and oversight, has encouraged all applicants to submit PICs that related to verification of registration, the validity of Whois data, and help protect the "creative sector", a reference to content producers that are often subject to piracy on the Internet.[4]

PICs Submitted edit

The following link out directly to the downloads for the respective PICs submitted:

  1. .airforce - Demand Media, PIC
  2. .app - Famous Four Media, PIC
  3. .army - Demand Media, PIC
  4. .bar - Demand Media, PIC
  5. .bargains - Donuts, PIC
  6. .baseball - Donuts, PIC
  7. .basketball - Famous Four Media, PIC
  8. .beauty - Donuts, PIC
  9. .bet - Famous Four Media, PIC
  10. .bet - Donuts, PIC
  11. .bike - Donuts, PIC
  12. .bingo - Famous Four Media, PIC
  13. .book - Famous Four Media, PIC
  14. .book - Donuts, PIC
  15. .bradesco - Banco Bradesco S.A., PIC
  16. .buzz - dotStrategy, PIC
  17. .cam - Demand Media, PIC
  18. .career - dotCareer LLC, PIC
  19. .casino - Famous Four Media, PIC
  20. .casino - dotBeauty LLC, PIC
  21. .charity - Donuts, PIC
  22. .charity - Famous Four Media, PIC
  23. .cheap - Donuts, PIC
  24. .city - Donuts, PIC
  25. .claims - Donuts, PIC
  26. .cleaning - Donuts, PIC
  27. .clinic - Donuts, PIC
  28. .clothing - Donuts, PIC
  29. .cloud - Donuts, PIC
  30. .club - Donuts, PIC
  31. .coffee - Donuts, PIC
  32. .college - Donuts, PIC
  33. .community, Donuts, PIC
  34. .company - Donuts, PIC
  35. .computer - Donuts, PIC
  36. .condos - Donuts, PIC
  37. .consulting - Donuts, PIC
  38. .contractors - Donuts, PIC
  39. .cool - Donuts, PIC
  40. .corp - Donuts, PIC
  41. .construction - Donuts, PIC
  42. .coupons - Donuts, PIC
  43. .cpa - Donuts, PIC
  44. .credit - Donuts, PIC
  45. .creditcard - Donuts, PIC
  46. .creditunion - CUNA, PIC
  47. .cricket - Donuts, PIC
  48. .cruise - Cruise Lines International Association Inc., PIC
  49. .cruises - Donuts, PIC
  50. .dance - Demand Media, PIC
  51. .date - Donuts, PIC
  52. .dating - Donuts, PIC
  53. .deals - Donuts, PIC
  54. .degree - Donuts, PIC
  55. .delivery - Donuts, PIC
  56. .democrat - Demand Media, PIC
  57. .dental - Donuts, PIC
  58. .dentist - Donuts, PIC
  59. .design - Donuts, PIC
  60. .diamonds - Donuts, PIC
  61. .diet - Donuts, PIC
  62. .digital - Donuts, PIC
  63. .direct - Donuts, PIC
  64. .directory - Donuts, PIC
  65. .discount - Donuts, PIC
  66. .doctor - Donuts, PIC
  67. .dog - Donuts, PIC
  68. .domains - Donuts, PIC
  69. .download - Famous Four Media, PIC
  70. .eco - Big Room Inc., PIC
  71. .eco - Donuts, PIC
  72. .ecom - Ecommerce Inc., PIC
  73. .education - Donuts, PIC
  74. .email - Donuts, PIC
  75. .energy - Famous Four Media, PIC
  76. .engineer - Donuts, PIC
  77. .engineering - Donuts, PIC
  78. .enterprises - Donuts, PIC
  79. .equipment - Donuts, PIC
  80. .estate - Donuts, PIC
  81. .events - Donuts, PIC
  82. .exchange - Donuts, PIC
  83. .expert - Donuts, PIC
  84. .exposed - Donuts, PIC
  85. .express - Donuts, PIC
  86. .fail - Donuts, PIC
  87. .family - Donuts, PIC
  88. .fan - Donuts, PIC
  89. .farm - Donuts, PIC
  90. .fashion - Donuts, PIC
  91. .film - Donuts, PIC
  92. .finance - Donuts, PIC
  93. .financial - Donuts, PIC
  94. .fish - Donuts, PIC
  95. .fishing - Demand Media, PIC
  96. .fitness - Donuts, PIC
  97. .flights - Donuts, PIC
  98. .florist - Donuts, PIC
  99. .flowers - Donuts, PIC
  100. .food - Donuts, PIC
  101. .football - Donuts, PIC
  102. .forsale - Donuts, PIC
  103. .forum - Donuts, PIC
  104. .foundation - Donuts, PIC
  105. .free - Donuts, PIC
  106. .fun - Donuts, PIC
  107. .fund - Donuts, PIC
  108. .furniture - Donuts, PIC
  109. .flowers - Donuts, PIC
  110. .futbol - Donuts, PIC
  111. .fyi - Donuts, PIC
  112. .gallery - Donuts, PIC
  113. .games - Donuts, PIC
  114. .garden - Donuts, PIC
  115. .gay - Demand Media, PIC
  116. .gcc - GCCIX WLL, PIC
  117. .gecompany - GE GTLD Holdings LLC, PIC
  118. .gifts - Donuts, PIC
  119. .gives - Donuts, PIC
  120. .glass - Donuts, PIC
  121. .global - Donuts, PIC
  122. .gmbh - Donuts, PIC
  123. .gmbh - InterNetWire, PIC
  124. .gold - Donuts, PIC
  125. .golf - Donuts, PIC
  126. .graphics - Donuts, PIC
  127. .gratis - Donuts, PIC
  128. .green - DotGreen Community Inc., PIC
  129. .green - Demand Media, PIC
  130. .gripe - Donuts, PIC
  131. .group - Donuts, PIC
  132. .guide - Donuts, PIC
  133. .guru - Donuts, PIC
  134. .halal - Asia Green IT System Bilgisayar San., PIC
  135. .haus - Donuts, PIC
  136. .health - DotHealth, LLC, PIC
  137. .health - dot Health Limited, PIC
  138. .health - Donuts, PIC
  139. .healthcare - Donuts, PIC
  140. .help, Donuts, PIC
  141. .hiv - dotHIV gemeinnuetziger e.V., PIC
  142. .hockey - Donuts, PIC
  143. .holdings - Donuts, PIC
  144. .holiday - Donuts, PIC
  145. .home - Donuts, PIC

References edit

Governmental Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN as they relate to concerns of governments, particularly matters where there may be an interaction between ICANN's policies and various laws and international agreements or where they may affect public policy issues (ICANN Bylaws).

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