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20(c) Provide a description of the community-based purpose of the applied-for gTLD

gTLDFull Legal NameE-mail suffixDetail
.islamAsia Green IT System Bilgisayar San. ve Tic. Ltd. Sti.nsline.comView
• Intended registrants in the TLD.

The .Islam gTLD is intended for Muslim faithful who wish to promote, participate or learn about Islam and its various facets, its affect on the daily life of the people around the word, its history, its law and jurisprudence and the rich and diverse culture that surrounds it. Thus, any well-intentioned Muslim who wants to supply such content, or do business based around it, will be able to operate a domain under the .ISLAM gTLD.

• Intended end-users of the TLD.


For a fifth of the worldʹs population, Islam is both a religion and a complete way of life. Muslims follow a religion of peace, mercy, and forgiveness - and the majority have nothing to do with the extremely grave events which have come to be associated with their faith. Every Muslim, and indeed a great many non-Muslims, in the world can benefit from .ISLAM websites and the wealth of information and services that it is anticipated will offered by them. The diversity of the .ISLAM gTLD’s offering would be wide enough to cover almost all audiences and their Islam-related needs, considering that all .ISLAM websites will be promoting Islam in some form.

Within all of these populations, the specific intended end users of the .ISLAM gTLD are manifold, and include:

People with ties to Islamic heritage: This includes a significant percentage of both the population of Muslim countries and also with other nations.
Individual Muslims: As demonstrated above, this includes hundreds of millions of individuals around the world.
Students: Those learning about different aspects of Islam, its concepts, its laws, its culture and heritage and its many other facets would benefit from increased resources online that would help them to learn and develop.
Islamic businesses: as in every community, Muslims undertake a great deal of business both within their community and also with external groups. The ability to link their business to the word Islam will therefore be of significant importance to Muslim businesses, both to denote a Muslim-based business and also as a source of pride in being known as such. Indeed, the word Islam is already exceptionally popular within online business – and the word alone yields more than 500 million hits when searched.
All sects: As described above, the main two sects of the Muslim community are Sunnis and Shias – both of whom will be welcome to operate under the .ISLAM gTLD, alongside all other Muslim sects.

It is hoped that not only will these intended users derive individual benefit from the existence of a .ISLAM community, but that they will also contribute in turn. This should create a group benefit, which will in turn feed back in to individual benefits – establishing a beneficial cycle.


• Related activities the applicant has carried out or intends to carry out in service of this purpose.

Anticipating the diversification of TLDs now being realized, and the consequent introduction of an Islamic-specific online space, AGITSys has been working with a wide variety of related parties for several years in preparation, and will continue to do so going forward. A key element for the success of the .ISLAM gTLD is a strong and interactive community, which Muslims around the world are proud to associate with and keen to contribute to. To ensure this, AGITSys will sponsor community outreach and marketing, in order to raise awareness of the forthcoming possibilities. These possibilities are also highly appealing for Islamic businesses, and as such AGITSys will engage in dialogue with those businesses, and industry chiefs, regarding their ideas for how the .ISLAM gTLD will take shape, and what they intend to subsequently give back to it.
Quality content will also be fundamental to a thriving .ISLAM community, especially because AGITSys is committed to ensuring that .ISLAM is populated by quality second-level domain offerings. With this in mind, AGITSys will be talking with those most likely to contribute quality content, from news and media agencies to academics and libraries (who will be able to digitize Islamic materials and then distribute them online comprehensively for the first time) about how they can and will contribute, and what AGITSys can do to facilitate this process.
Ultimately, however, religion will always be the most important element for a successful .ISLAM community online. The entire gTLD concept is designed as a place of online respect; almost worship, for those of Islamic faith. As such, the involvement, blessing and feedback of the Islamic religious community is fundamentally important. Aware of this, AGITSys has been in prolonged and continued contact with important religious figures – asking them what they want to see and how they would like to see it done, whilst also encouraging them to spread the word and prepare themselves. This should mean that when the .ISLAM gTLD comes online, there will be a large swathe of information posted almost immediately – therefore instantly creating a rewarding user experience.

• Explanation of how the purpose is of a lasting nature.

The community that will be served by .ISLAM--growing as it has out of the Muslims community--has thrived and grown for more than a millennium. Remarkably, it has done so largely without the level of connection online found within Western cultures. This existing community interconnection speaks to the cultural staying power of the Islamic community and the many ways it enriches world culture.

With the adoption of a .ISLAM community, this robust group will be further empowered to interconnect and grow, allowing it to take its equal place on the Internet stage. The community thrives now, but will reach new heights through the .ISLAM gTLD.

The growth of the .ISLAM gTLD will be driven by what economists refer to as the network effect. A network effect occurs when a service becomes more popular as more individuals adopt it. A significant portion of the serviceʹs value stems directly from the increased adoption and usage of the service. Historically the network effect is most powerful in tools of interconnection. The telegraph and telephone were technologies that grew exponentially due to the network effect. The Internet itself is an example of that phenomenon, as seen by the rapid upward growth curve of Internet penetration, broadband speeds, and web site creation. ICANNʹs data on the growth of .COM is an example of the network effect, and now it is seen in social-media platforms atop the Internet, such as Facebook and Twitter.

As more sites offer information, services, and opportunities for interconnection to the .ISLAM community as a whole, more members of the community will navigate to those sites. Many of those will provide their own content, and their activity there will spark further growth of second-level .ISLAM domains. At some point, information and service providers currently not offering sites will see the demand for .ISLAM-related content and will migrate their offerings to .ISLAM sites as well, furthering the offerings to the community and further driving community members to .ISLAM sites. The future benefits of interlinking this diverse and global community are incalculable but immense.
gTLDFull Legal NameE-mail suffixDetail
.cpaCPA AUSTRALIA LTDcpaaustralia.com.auView
The purpose of the proposed new .cpa gTLD is to align the CPA community’s digital community with its professional identity, by providing a new avenue for the CPA Australia community to market itself online and to promote the CPA Australia community and the CPA designation internationally. The new .cpa gTLD will create an online community and exclusive domain space for the CPA Australia community, providing a new way in which members can express themselves on the internet and enhance their sense of belonging to the CPA Australia community. The .cpa gTLD will allow greater interaction between members of the CPA community and also between members and the wider accountancy profession, customers and internet users. The new .cpa gTLD will allow CPA Australia to provide new innovative services to members of the CPA community, including personalised domain names and email addresses. The .cpa gTLD will strengthen global public awareness in the CPA Australia community, which will further enhance the international recognition and value of the CPA designation and program and thus benefit members of the CPA community in the process. CPA Australia also anticipates that the new gTLD will significantly benefit members of the CPA community by providing internet users and customers with improved navigation and search functions on the .cpa gTLD to find a local CPA and connect to their .cpa personalised domain.

CPA Australia has a proud 125-year history of representing and promoting its members, the wider accountant profession and the value of the CPA designation, as well as expanding the CPA Australia community globally. In order to broaden the global reach of the CPA Australia community and promote international recognition of the value of the CPA designation, CPA Australia has been expanding by opening offices across the world and entering into Mutual Recognition Agreements with other leading accounting bodies to offer the opportunity to members to apply for reciprocal overseas membership and access to a range of resources and benefits. CPA Australia launched the CPA designation and CPA Program in 1986 and has worked tirelessly to promote and establish CPA as a leading global professional accountancy designation.

As part of its commitment to innovation and marketing the CPA Australia community online, CPA Australia launched “CPA Online” in 1995, its cutting-edge website providing knowledge, training and information to members and the general public. Since then, CPA Australia has continued to develop its online presence and today CPA Australia’s website is a leading global source of information, services, and training for the CPA Australia community, the wider accountant, finance and business advisory professions, students and young professionals, employers and customers.

The proposed new .cpa gTLD is a natural progression of CPA Australia’s leading online presence amongst global accounting bodies. CPA Australia will continue to expand the community internationally, market the CPA Australia community online and enhance the global recognition and value of the CPA designation, all of which will be greatly assisted by the new .cpa gTLD. The .cpa gTLD will provide a lasting domain space for the CPA Australia community to interact and market itself online on a truly international scale, offer innovative services to its members, improve user experience and connectivity and help CPA Australia achieve its overall long-term vision of becoming the global professional accountancy designation for strategic business leaders.

Registrations under the .cpa gTLD will be open to the following eligible registrants:

- full CPA members;

- Associate members currently enrolled in a CPA program;

- students and young professionals currently registered in CPA Australia’s Passport program; and

- individuals that are either reciprocal members of or are currently enrolled in equivalent courses through leading overseas accounting bodies with which CPA Australia has, or may enter into, Mutual Recognition Agreements.


Intended end-users of the new .cpa gTLD include members of the CPA Australia community, the broader accountancy, finance and business professions, employers, students, customers and internet users in general. The .cpa gTLD will provide all of these end-users with a vastly enhanced user experience by providing an innovative, exclusive and interactive domain space for the CPA Australia community and ease of searching for CPA Australia, its members, programs, services and products.