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June 19, 2008 Post
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by Ron Jackson (Editor/Publisher)
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The
Internet
Commerce Association (ICA) announced
today that, in cooperation with EuroDNS, it will
establish a sister organization in Europe. Internet
Commerce Association-Europe (ICA-EU) will be
headquartered in Luxembourg to better represent its
members with |
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the EU Parliament and
agencies located in Brussels, the European Court
located in Luxembourg, and the separate governments of the
nations of Europe. The announcement was made on the
opening day of the DomainerMeeting
conference currently underway in Paris, France.
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ICA is a non-profit trade association headquartered in Washington,
DC. The organization seeks to preserve the
entrepreneurial environment of the Internet that has made
it such an innovative and high-growth arena for commerce
in the U.S., Europe and worldwide.
Domain owner's internet
investments are being challenged by a number of |
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competing interests
that would like to confiscate valuable domain names by
changing the laws and policies that govern trademark
disputes in the European Union and the U.S.,
as well as the process established by ICANN for the
resolution of domain name disputes.
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Some governments are
also advocating policies that would threaten the
owners of valuable geo-domains, while others seek
to censor internet content including domain name
content. Domainers often invest large sums of
money to purchase and develop their domains and
require a stable |
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Jeremiah
Johnston (Sedo.com)
ICA President |
and fair legal and
policy environment to protect those investments.
ICA and ICA-EU will coordinate their activities to
explain and promote the interests of their members
to national governments, the EU, ICANN, and all
other relevant policy-making bodies.
With
its headquarters in Europe, ICA-EU will be able to
better represent the interests of European
domainers to the ccTLD managers and
national governments of the continent. The
establishment of ICA-EU also emphasizes that the
Internet is a global platform for communications
and commerce and that domainers must adopt an
international approach in promoting and protecting
their shared interests.
Jeremiah
Johnston, ICA President, said “This is a big
step for ICA as it reaches out to fulfill its |
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worldwide
mission. EuroDNS has been actively involved with
multiple European governments and ccTLD managers
effecting legislative and policy issues over the
last several years. ICA is happy |
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to
have EuroDNS assuming a leadership role in
the establishment of ICA-Europe. We hope
that ICA-Europe is the first of what will
eventually be many sister organizations.
There has already been interest expressed
from Latin America in forming a
regional organization there.”
Xavier
Buck, EuroDNS CEO, said “EuroDNS is
excited to help expand ICA into Europe. We
saw what ICA achieved to foster a better
legislative climate for domainers in the US
and we are delighted to play our part to
bring the same to Europe. All of us want to
see the Internet remain a place where entrepreneurs
can thrive and we
really think EuroDNS can be of great
help." ICA-EU expects to begin
operations by early fall when it will also
launch its website in multiple European
languages.
(Posted
June
19, 2008) |
EuroDNS
CEO Xavier Buck |
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