☎ ENS Public Goods – Weekly Meeting: 12pm ET/5pm UTC, Thursday – Term 6

🏛️ Public Goods Meetings
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1. Welcome ALL [image]

  • Welcome all the weekly dose of Public Goods Goodness!

2. Jam corner with the PG band aka @Sov

  • No music corner this week :frowning:

3. Miscellaneous ENS updates of general interest

  • Events:
    • ETHTokyo, 9/12 - 9/15
    • ETHGlobal New Delhi, 9/26 - 9/28
    • ETHRome, 10/17 - 10/19
    • Devconnect (Social), 11/19 6-9pm
    • ETHGlobal Buenos Aires, 11/21 - 11/23
  • L2 primary names Dune Dashboard
  • The ENScribe team published the Contract Naming page onthe Ethereum.org website
  • Namehash Labs is organizing the ENS Holiday Awards

4. ICANN x web3 updates and structure

  • Focus on how this work is related to ENS and the broader ecosystem.
  • Emily has been working within ICANN for a number of years and has a tremendous amount of policy development expertise.
  • She has been helping ENS with various endeavors, including outreach and reputation management.
  • Working in the ICANN space since 2009.
  • She has spent the vast majority of her career working in intellectual property practices at law firms.
  • Supported ENS and the larger community on tracking key activities during several ICANN meetings and preparing public comments on various aspects of the new gTLD program.
  • The web3 space is not well understood within the ICANN community.
  • It’s viewed as something elitist, separate, just for techie types or wealthy people.
  • There are a number of bad actors in the web3 space, which is not well-regulated as compared to the traditional DNS.
  • Educating the public is one of the best ways to counter bad behavior.
  • ICANN stands for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
  • It is responsible for the stability and the security of the DNS.
  • In 2012, they opened a window for the new GTLD program, the new generic top-level domain program.
  • Another window of the new gTLD program is opening up in April of 2026.
  • The “Gigantic Bible” for the new gTLD program is the Applicant Guidebook, which is over 400 pages long.
  • The application fee for a new gTLD in the first round was $187,000, but it has increased to $227,000 for the current round, and is non-refundable.
  • .eth is a reserved string for country codes, and protecting it is a primary strategy.
  • ENS aims to be seen as “good citizens of the ICANN community” by addressing issues like lack of transparency in fee assessment and conflicts of interest for program evaluators.
  • ENS’s constitution states that they will never create another top level domain that isn’t sanctioned by ICANN other than eth.
  • The goal is to maximize ENS integration within the DNS world, encouraging new gTLD applications to integrate with ENS and existing top-level domains like .locker and .box.
  • Emily and other members of the ENS team divide ICANN meeting activities, with Alex’s team focusing on .eth work and direct interactions with the GAC and country code top-level domain representatives.
  • Emily tracks the new gTLD program, general policy developments, and mentions of blockchain or web3 issues.
  • The Dublin meeting is the Annual General meeting, which is the largest ICANN meeting of the year.
  • The speaker encourages web3 companies to consider the new gTLD program for brand protection and security enhancements, as the window may not open again for a long time.
  • Emily will generate reports for public consumption about ICANN meetings, procedures, perceptions of Web3, and VNs.
  • PG will cover a portion of Emily’s fees, which are estimated to be a couple of thousand dollars per month.

5. Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.

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