This collaborative Confluence page is to be used by WT D members to outline/storyboard a new, consolidated At-Large consumer-outreach document(s).
Links to At-Large's already-existing documents aimed at consumer outreach follow:
- Needs to be updated.
Briefing on Consumers Constituency - updated - Nov 2009
Top Five Reasons Your Organization Should Join ICANN
- Note: The above document is largely outdated. It is available here for historical purposes.
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WT D's consolidated consumer document: Drafts
The following document is a work-in-progress. It still needs work on both its text and formatting. (In particular, copy and pasting from Word to the Confluence page is introducing some anomolies, in this case.)
Draft 2Defending consumers on the Internet_v3
Defending Consumers on the Internet_v2
Defending Consumers on the Internet_v1
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Outline/Storyboard ideas
[Begin outlining/storyboarding here.]
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- concepts of a domain name, top level domains, registry, registrar, registrant.
- Registrants are the individuals or organisations who register or license specific domain names for a specific period of time and for a fee from registrars.
Registrars are organizations accredited by ICANN that processes the registration for the domain name (once the domain name is available) and transmits the name and registration details to the registry
operator which operates the registry (the master database) for the generic Top Level Domain (gTLDs). Currently, there are 21 gTLDs including .com, .net and .org
- Registrants are the individuals or organisations who register or license specific domain names for a specific period of time and for a fee from registrars.
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