name.space, inc.
11 east 4th street, new york, ny 10003 usa  212.677.4080 fax  677.3603  internet: 
info@name-space.com


To: 	Louis Touton
	Vice President, ICANN
	4676 Admirality Way Suite 330
	Marina Del Rey, California 90292-6601
	310.823.9358  fax 823.8649



Dear Louis Touton,

Thank you for your email regarding the Name.Space application to ICANN's TLD 
registry review.

Name.Space has every intention to comply with your request and to participate in 
the ICANN review process in good faith.

The purpose of the disagreement over the non-refundable $50,000.00 fee was to 
focus on issues pertaining to that fee which Name.Space believes ICANN has 
neglected to
articulate.  Those issues are:

	1)	How was the amount of the fee determined?
	
	2)	What oversight was there over determining that amount?
	
	3)	What body provided oversight over the fairness of the fee?
	
	4)	If a proposal is not accepted in this round will there
		be further rounds of TLD registry review and approval?
		
	5)	If there are to be more rounds of TLD registry review,
		when will that be?
		
	6)	If a proposal is not accepted in this round and there
		are future rounds, will a balance left over from the
		costs of reviewing a proposal be carried over and
		applied to the next round?
		
	7)	Is it ICANN's intention to restrict the number of TLDs
		or does ICANN intend to expand the number of TLDs?
		
	8)	What does ICANN consider its concept of range of expansion
		if the answer to the above is "expand" the number of TLDs?
		
	9)	What timeline would be descriptive for reaching any limits
		on expansion, if ICANN seeks to impose limits on the number
		of TLDs?
		
   10)		What is ICANN's perception on the number of TLDs it will
   		approve in this first round?

Our clients and investors would like to know the answers to these questions, as I 
am certain the public and the Congress would like to know the answers as well.

A sum of $50,000.00 is not insignificant to small businesses and their investors.  
While we raised the funds to apply for ICANN review, many potential sponsors 
could not justify the cost or the risks involved given the unclear positions that 
the above questions seek to clarify.  The prevailing opinion of potential 
sponsors who declined to fund the ICANN review process believed that $50,000.00 
is best spent paying salaries at Name.Space rather than funding an uncertain 
agenda of ICANN, especially when all indications point to the possibility that 
ICANN seeks to restrict rather than expand the number of TLDs. Your honest 
answers to the above may help to clarify the validity of the $50,000.00 fee and 
the "no refund" policy as well as to articulate ICANNšs position on whether it 
intends to restrict the number of TLDs or to expand them.

Sincerely,

Paul Garrin
Founder/CEO
Name.Space, Inc.


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To:  Paul Garrin

ICANN received Name.Space, Inc.'s TLD application for an unsponsored
top-level domain.  The last paragraph of item B6 of the
Unsponsored TLD Application Transmittal Form was crossed out and the
words "Do Not Agree" written over the paragraph.

The New TLD Application Instructions posted at
 state that
one of the elements of a complete application is "[a] completed and
signed Unsponsored TLD Application Transmittal Form." (item I6.1)

Because the last paragraph of item B6. was crossed out, Name.Space,
Inc.'s application is incomplete.  ICANN is unwilling to consider the 
application on the basis of Name.Space's proposed changes to the 
terms of the transmittal form.

ICANN would like to offer Name.Space, Inc. an opportunity to correct
this deficiency.  Please fax a completed and signed Unsponsored TLD
Application Transmittal Form (without any changes or markings to its
terms) to ICANN by 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Friday, October 6, 2000 
and send the original of the completed and signed form to ICANN at 
its offices in Marina del Rey, CA by overnight courier for delivery 
no later than Saturday, October 7, 2000.

If ICANN does not receive a completed and signed Unsponsored TLD
Application Transmittal Form as described in the preceding paragraph,
Name.Space, Inc.'s application will not be considered complete and 
ICANN will return the application, along with the application fee, to 
Name.Space, Inc.

Please note that Name.Space, Inc.'s application will receive no further
review unless and until ICANN receives a completed, signed, and 
unaltered Unsponsored TLD Application Transmittal Form as stated above. 
Accordingly, ICANN has not determined in what other ways, if any,
Name.Space, Inc.'s application is incomplete.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Best regards,

Louis Touton
ICANN Vice President

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