Question: What do you think favourably differentiates your bid from the 10 others?

1. At a time when there is legitimate pressure for the international non-commercial dot-org community to run the dot-org domain, UIA / Diversitas is both non-profit and non-US-based -- one of the two bids so distinguished.

Stuart Lynn
President and CEO
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6601
USA

29 August 2002

.org reassignment

Dear Mr Lynn,

We appreciate the opportunity to comment on ICANN’s preliminary staff report and the related assessments of the .org bids by the various evaluation teams.

Reassignment of the .ORG top-level domain
Submitted to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers

UIA’s qualifications for its Diversitas proposal

1. Apolitical clearing house and respected custodian of civil society information, headquartered in Brussels for over 90 years.

2. Authoritative registry of non-profits (explicitly endorsed by UN/ECOSOC Resolution 334B (XI), 20 July 1950).

Project date: 2001-2002

Union of International Associations (UIA) Proposal to Operate the .ORG Internet Domain

You can express your views on this bid at the ICANN Public Comment Forum