Nov 2015 06

Roundtable Discussion on New gTLD Program

Electronics Niketan, New Delhi

This meeting was organised by the the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) and focussed on the New gTLD Program Implementation Review Draft Report and the New gTLD Auction Proceeds Discussion Paper. Dr. Ajay Kumar, Additional Secretary, DeitY chaired the roundtable and the discussions were moderated by Shri Rahul Gosain, Director, DeitY. Rajat Rai Handa represented the Internet Democracy Project in this discussion.

In pursuance to India’s commitment to the multi-stakeholder approach towards Internet governance, the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, the nodal department for Internet governance, has decided to host a series of roundtables to invite comments from relevant stakeholders on key Internet governance issues. This was the seventh multi-stakeholder discussion in the series of roundtables.

The agenda of the meeting primarily focused on discussing the following documents for the new genereic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) program :
1. New gTLD Program Implementation Review Draft Report 
 — Phase 1 Assessment of the Competitive Effects Associated with the New gTLD Program
2. New gTLD Auction Proceeds Discussion Paper