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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
.medDocCheck AGdoccheck.comView
List of content
a- Introduction
b- Intended registrants
c- Intended end-users
d- Related activities
e- Lasting nature

a- Introduction
The community-based purpose of the applied for gTLD .med is to provide a namespace acting as the safe and secure home base for all topics relevant to the medical and healthcare community. Community members should consider the .med as a cooperation of reliable, skilled, trustworthy and most notably verified professionals sharing similar occupations and a professional attitude towards their work life. The gTLD should encourage the community and its members to play an active role in the exchange of information and knowledge and the organization of community issues. Ideally, this strengthens the bonds between the sole member and the higher goals and interests that aid and promote the community. Therefore, through centralizing und professionalizing the presentation of medical and healthcare websites, services, individuals and organizations, an identity is created that community members can feel gravitated towards. Above all, the .med gTLD encourages and improves the provision of a solution accessible for every internet user worldwide in terms of being provided with information and services on medical and healthcare topics. That is especially relevant since advanced industrial countries are marked by the impact of an aging society while developing as well as undeveloped countries are marked by population growth linked with a lack of basic medical and healthcare services. Among others, one challenge for the community arises to generate a global communications platform in order to exchange information and professional expertise in medical and healthcare topics.

b- Intended registrants
Consecutively, intended registrants for the gTLD .med are all community members. Please find an overview on intended registrant categories explained at question 20(a) and a detailed compilation of possible professions subsumed under all six registrant categories defined at question 18(a). Henceforth, it should be outlined what possible use cases intended registrants of the gTLD could inherit. First, .med should provide a namespace for all members of the medical and healthcare community for representing themselves, their businesses or occupations, and their day-to-day work. Possible webpages could range from, among others, introductions of doctor’s practices or hospitals, procedures that they are specialized at (i.e. radiology), or other information that is worth being published to an open or limited public. Second, community members could for example publish contributions to the development of their fields of expertise or suggestions for treatments diseases etc. Third, they should be able to use the .med namespace themselves for research and aggregation of useful information they can apply to their daily work or their field of expertise in general. Last, the secured namespace should encourage experts and practitioners to engage in communication and exchange of information. As access to such websites and services with .med domain is restricted and therefore a certain level of quality is guaranteed, it is expected that community members will experience as greater tendency to do so than today.

c- Intended end-users
Apart from the community members, who are intended registrants as well as beneficiaries, DocCheck AG expects all internet users to be another important group of important beneficiaries. Thus, end users of the gTLD .med will be all community members as well as all internet users (please refer to question 18(a) for more details). As end-user use cases have already been described for community members in the intended registrant section, it should now be concentrated on end-user use cases for internet users. First, ordinary (meaning: not directly related to the medical or healthcare profession) internet users are able to identify and evaluate the great variety of different medical and healthcare professions and their respective locations with practices, hospitals, and others. They can plan consultations ahead and inform themselves about special circumstances. Second, there is a growing tendency of people demanding information and knowledge about their diseases, treatments, and methodologies. People connected to the internet widely use it as a source for information and research, which is why a designated medical and healthcare namespace could function as a first point of contact and signpost for people inexperienced with medical and healthcare topics. Third, webpages and services could complement the doctor-patient-relationship by providing additional information and simplifying communication.

d- Related activities
Apart from the application for the new gTLD .med, DocCheck AG is providing a multitude of other services for the medical and healthcare community for over 15 years now. Almost all services are provided free of charge as complemental benefits for the free DocCheck portal membership. The magnitude of services provided are widely accepted and used throughout the medical and healthcare community and deliver added value to all members.

- DocCheck Single-Sign-On, providing one login for over 2,500 websites with content solely addressed to medical and healthcare professions
- DocCheck Newsletter addressing healthcare specialists worldwide,
- DocCheck Faces, the medical network service enabling communication among health care specialists,
- DocCheck Flexikon, an open medical lexicon which is updated and maintained by qualified users of the DocCheck portal.
- DocCheck TV, DocCheck Picture, DocCheck Shop
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- Likewise DocCheck Campus offers space on the Internet for medical students to find information concerning their studies and⁄or opportunities as well as eLearning offerings. The introduction of the gTLD .med would establish further space on the Internet to broaden that user experience and help young talent to enter the healthcare sector, and ordinary people as well as health care specialist to find a reliable information platform. Empowerment training concerning students

e- Lasting nature
As described earlier in the answers to these questions and question 18, the DocCheck network could be understood as a first step towards a cross-professional medical and healthcare umbrella association providing organizational and communicational as well as other services to the global community. This is especially important as it should be obvious that the community will in all probability remain intact as long as humanity lives for different reasons. As medical research develops further and further, pathogens and germs will mutate and develop as well. This is why mankind will have to deal with diseases for a very long time in the future and is therefore always dependable on specialist in the medical and healthcare profession. In this argument it is implicitly said that the state of research and therefore treatment methodologies will always develop and experience change and actualization. Additionally, two demographic trends intensify the argument. In industrialized countries aging societies and the demographic shift place new challenges on modern public healthcare systems. In developing countries, population growth and simultaneous lack of basic medical healthcare lead to a high children mortality rates, a spread of diseases and epidemic plagues as well as two-class system of healthcare division between the poor and the rich. Furthermore, even global population is growing and has for the first time ever reached the level of 7 bn. It can be said that trained medical and healthcare personnel is unevenly distributed throughout the world. This leads to flashpoints where currently only some organizations like Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) deliver basic help. All these cases show that the community itself and the supporting goals and causes are needed more than ever on the globe.