ICANN Presentation Bucharest, Romania June 26, 2002

Overview Who we are Highlights of our bid Supporters of our bid Why ICANN should choose us Questions

Who we are The.Org Foundation is a nonprofit founded specifically to be the.org registry Our initial team: –Melessa Rogers, Sheila Richardson, Bob Duffy –eNom, Inc –.Org supporters –Microsoft –Terry Drayton

Highlights of our bid Strong technical and financial capability: –eNom: over 1 million names registered, –Proven performance: M DNS lookups daily –Improved services (ex: real time zone updates) –Microsoft support: technical and financial Service to the.org community: –Lowest price, superb service at $4.95/name –100% of proceeds plus matching funds to.orgs –100% of Foundation board directly elected by.orgs

More Highlights of our bid Enhanced competition –New registry –Equivalent access, no cost transfers Differentiation of.org TLD –EPP polling mechanism: by.orgs for.orgs –Innovative opt-in marketing, self identification Matching Funds –Expect to at least double the ICANN endowment –To increase.org access to Internet technologies worldwide

Our Supporters We believe our bid will become the consensus choice among –Non-commercial.Organizations –Registrars –Governments –Academics –Commercial Enterprises

Why ICANN should chose us Simply the best bid –Very strong technically –Best price, best service for the.org community –Broad (and growing) spectrum of support –Introduces a stable new registry to ICANN Only bid that provides the.org community with complete control of its own registry

Questions Our team is here to answer questions or send them via to Well post this presentation together with the Q&A from this and other sessions at We welcome your questions and comments

Thank You for your time and consideration