DNSO Names Council

Under Article VI-B, Section 3(c) of the ICANN bylaws, members of the DNSO Names Council (NC) are selected by the constituencies. Each constituency may select up to three NC members. Ordinarily, no two NC representatives selected by a constituency may be citizens of the same ICANN Geographic Region. These regions are Africa; the Asia-Pacific region; Europe; Latin America and the Carribean; and North America. Under Article VI-B, Section 2(f) of the bylaws, NC representatives serve for terms established in connection with the recognition of the constituency, but not longer than two years.

Current NC members are:

ccTLD Registries: Europe (.fr) - Elisabeth Porteneuve Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr LatinAC (.mx) - Oscar Alejandro Robles Garay orobles@nic.mx Vacant

Commercial and Business Entities: AsiaPac (.nz) - Grant Forsyth grant.forsyth@clear.co.nz Europe (.uk) - Philip Sheppard philip.sheppard@aim.be NorthA (.us) - Marilyn Cade mcade@att.com

gTLD Registries: AsiaPac (.au) - Richard Tindal Richard.Tindal@neulevel.com Europe (.se) - Cary Karp ck@nrm.se NorthA (.us) - Roger Cochetti rcochetti@verisign.com

ISP and Connectivity Providers: Europe (.de) - Tony Holmes tony.ar.holmes@bt.com LatinAC (.ar) - Antonio Harris harris@cabase.org.ar NorthA (.us) - Greg Ruth greg_ruth@yahoo.com

Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders: AsiaPac (.kr) - Youn Jung Park yjpark@myepark.com LatinAC (.pa) - Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales vany@sdnp.org.pa NorthA (.us) - Milton Mueller mueller@syracuse.edu

Registrars: AsiaPac (.au) - Bruce Tonkin bruce.tonkin@melbourneit.com.au Europe (.de) - Philipp Grabensee philg@grabensee.com NorthA (.us) - Ken Stubbs kstubbs@dninet.org

Trademark, Other Intellectual Property and Anti-Counterfeiting Interests: AsiaPac (.il) - Ellen Shankman shankmane@yahoo.com Europe (.fr) - Laurence Djolakian laurence_djolakian@mpaa.org NorthA (.us) - J. Scott Evans jse@adamspat.com

Bruce Tonkin currently serves as the chair of the Names Council.