Dot Gay Alliance Announces Plan To Create .GAY Web Address

[companyone]

Hi,

Dot Gay Alliance Announces Plan To Create .GAY Web Address


New Top-Level Domain to Designate Majority of Profits to Fight for LGBT Civil
Rights

PRESS RELEASE:

NEW YORK, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- At next week's Internet conference in Seoul,
the Dot Gay Alliance www. dotgayalliance .com will unveil plans to create the
.GAY top-level domain that will provide a reliable and ethical source of
funding for LGBT civil rights.


Website names and email addresses ending in .GAY - such as
yourbusinessname .gay ~ www. londonbars .gay ~ www. news .gay and millions more -will create a new Internet community of self-identified LGBT businesses,
individuals and organizations and all those who wish to communicate with them.
And .GAY will be a community that gives back: A majority of all profits will
be returned to the LGBT community to fight for equality in the US and around
the world.


Everyone is familiar with generic web addresses (known as top-level domains)
ending in .com, .org, .net, .edu and .gov. There will soon be many more when
early next year the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) will begin accepting applications for new web addresses from cities,
companies, organizations and entrepreneurial ventures that want to create
their own.


Prominent supporters of the Dot Gay Alliance include:
-- 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



The Dot Gay Alliance is led by Founder & Executive Director Joe Dolce, whose
media strategy firm, DolceGoldin, provides communications services for the
Alliance. The technical infrastructure is provided by Minds + Machines, the
international Internet consulting group that is working with a number of new
top-level domain efforts, including .NYC www .dotnyc .net with former New York
City mayor Ed Koch, and .ECO .supportdoteco .com with the Sierra Club and Al
Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection.


"The LGBT community has always supported itself and its causes - no one was
there to help us," Dolce said. "We've made amazing progress in the 40 years
since Stonewall. Now in the digital era a .GAY top-level domain is a logical
evolution in our history of self sustenance."


"We are delighted to be working with the Dot Gay Alliance to create .GAY.
Their philanthropic business model represents what's best about the Internet.
The LGBT community will gain an unmistakable, positive presence on the
Internet and we're proud to be a part of that," said Antony Van Couvering, CEO
of Minds + Machines.


The Dot Gay Alliance philanthropic plan will provide funding for LGBT civil
rights groups in the US and abroad. Paula Ettelbrick, the well-known lawyer
and civil rights advocate, serves as the philanthropic advisor for the Dot Gay
Alliance. Source and links

SOURCE Dot Gay Alliance

 

[yilduz]

lol I have nothing against gays, homosexuals, or whatever is PC for them right now - but stuff like this makes me laugh. There is going to be a ton of controversy with this - both from the extension itself and from the sites that are developed on them.

 

[amoeba]

Is a gay bar not a commercial entity? Wtf happened to using the perfectly adequate, existing zones? (Note: this argument is not specific to this case; it could be applied to any of the stupid neo-gTLDs, e.g. .cat, .travel.)

If non-hierarchical category labels keep getting slapped in the root zone, why bother with the DNS? We might as well just go back to using a host table!

This is just one more sign of what's looking to become the flat, unmanageable namespace of the future. Oh ICANN.

 

[dotker]

this is insane, i always thought God created our things to multiply.

 

[Vito]

The gays can do as they want... behind closed doors.
I will treat them with the same respect as I give everyone.
But Come the F on!!!
A Gay extension???
I dont put what I believe in,
on a flag...or a parade...or a friggen extension!

Absolutely Friggen Ridiculous!

P.S.
although I just thought of a funny as He!! domain I would register...
I thought of it first, so dont reg this, ok?
www.ThisExtensionIs.gay
LMAO!!!

 

[mjs]

My hope is that ICANN abandons its plans to open the floodgates, if you will. But, if it is to be inevitable, I would not want ICANN to be discriminatory, except where matters of illegality are concerned (ie. child porn) Otherwise, from a practical standpoint, I have no objections to such an extension since it would not tend to represent a threat to the value of my portfolio. For me, something like .golf would be a greater concern. Further, to exclude .gay is a slippery slope. What if ICANN was to then start discriminating against minority religions (ie. permit .christian, but exclude .jewish) Basically, it could always be you the next time. Therein lies the greatest danger.

 

[DN BROKER]

whats next . lesbian, .transsexual

 

[enlytend]

Other groups are bound to come up with new extensions that make even less sense.

I would think that segregating LGBT websites to their own little DNS zone would go against the whole concept of gay pride/gay rights, but what do I know?

They're the ones putting up the fees and jumping through the hoops that ICANN requires to do this, so as far as I'm concerned," dot-whatever..."

 

[tristanperry]

Coming soon, to be a domain registrar near you!

.heterosexual

.bisexual

.christian

.atheist

.agnostic

.muslim

.jewish

.black

.white

.mixedrace

.old

.young

.male

.female

.transexual

And more politically correct-driven TLDs. Coming Soon!!






When will it end? I have no problem with homosexuals, but I just think that PC-driven TLDs (heck, this whole custom TLD idea, in-fact) is silly.

 

[winterwind.com]

All these new extensions .pro .biz etc. just waste money for people in a time when the economys in a recession. All the little websites and brands out there need to register their domain in these new extensions to protect themselves from cybersquatters. When there was no need for the new extension in the first place. New ccTLDs excluded, every country should have their own extension.

 

[spotedog]

.white and .caucasian would have some much protesting going on it would be at the rallies selling water for 2.00 a bottle making more than I would off of $domain.white

 

[dtagr]

This is a bad idea and and can only lead to major litigation headaches. Some questions:

1. What criteria is required to register a name with this extension? Do you have to declare your sexuality? Will proof be required?
2. If extension is unregulated what about defamation/slander/libel cases? "GlenBeckIs.gay", "GeneralMotorsIs.gay", "ICANNIs.gay", "NBCNewsIs.gay", etc.
3. Safety. Wouldn't this make it very easy for hate groups to target businesses/organizations who identify themselves as gay or gay friendly? This could easily lead to many deaths.
4. Now that the can of worms is open, can ICANN even reconsider if it doesn't work out? Closing the extension in the future would be akin to discriminating against an identifiable group and would certainly lead to many legal battles.

 

[labrocca]

Gay lobbyists are powerful and organized. This will get passed unfortunately. But that's okay. It will just give filter software an easy method by banning an entire extension.

 

[Archangel]

Aside from this, what REAL point is there in this extension?

This is a bad idea and and can only lead to major litigation headaches. Some questions:

1. What criteria is required to register a name with this extension? Do you have to declare your sexuality? Will proof be required?
2. If extension is unregulated what about defamation/slander/libel cases? "GlenBeckIs.gay", "GeneralMotorsIs.gay", "ICANNIs.gay", "NBCNewsIs.gay", etc.
3. Safety. Wouldn't this make it very easy for hate groups to target businesses/organizations who identify themselves as gay or gay friendly? This could easily lead to many deaths.
4. Now that the can of worms is open, can ICANN even reconsider if it doesn't work out? Closing the extension in the future would be akin to discriminating against an identifiable group and would certainly lead to many legal battles.

 

[cartoonz]

I want one 2 letter name in this extension.

IS

Anything/Anybody.is.gay

other than that, the hole (sic) thing is silly....

and, get this, there are actually two (at least) competing tribes wanting to control this extension!

 

[Archangel]

are.gay wouldn't be bad, either.

 

[DnEbook]

whether you like it or not, you cant tell me that you wouldn't own dating/date/gay , some folk will make money from this no doubt , this extension will make money for , this is the first of many

So what happens after it is approved , do other potential sites lease the extension ? what would happen i wonder , example , gifts/gay and so on and so on

 

[daj]

I'm almost certain the extension wouldn't be opened up to the public due to all the abuse that would stir up over it. It will most likely be governed like .gov, but by a GLBT organization to make sure the person/company who wants to own the domain is affiliated with the gay community in some way. Maybe they will have to have a membership to BUTT Magazine or a Gay Mafia card.

 

[dnpimping.com]

Just another way to cash in on the extension craze. Regardless of what the extension is, there should be a line drawn to say that we have enough already. New extensions are not needed!

 

[DnEbook]

will more general extensions be leased ?

will the owner of an extension be able to allow other versions for register ?

example , .car , hire.car buy.car sell.car , or will the owner have a monopoly ?

 

[Abideen]

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