E-mail from Anthony Harrison, Director, e2p Limited (11 October 2000)

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To the Board of Directors of ICANN

FIRSTLY

I wish to advise you of the existence of technology with patent pending ("The e2p Technology"), under which any new TLD issued by ICANN "WILL NOT WORK.".

The e2p (tm) technology makes every word or letter available as a new TLD, so long as it was not a pre-existing TLD at the 1st of January 2000.

The new TLDs are called eTLD (Extended Top level Domains), to differentiate them from gTLD and ccTLD.

e2p Limited is currently in the process of negotiating the issueing of various TLDs to various organisations, which by way of example include .phone (and all foreign language representations), .car (and all foreign language representations), and .art (and all foreign language representations).

Of particular importance in these examples are the .phone and .art eTLDs, which each also seek separate patent protection. We are not considering registering just a few eTLDs - as would seem the strategy at ICANN. We are considering registering millions. Your applicants should be informed that under The e2p Technology that any new TLD that ICANN might issue after the 1st of January 2000 will not work. Your applicants should also be informed of the existence of technology with patent pending that will throw them in direct conflict with the ambitions of the owners of those technologies. By way of example, your applicants for .tel and .phone are unlikely to be able to use them for telephone related purposes.

The website at www.e2p.com is yet to open for eTLD registrations, however e2p Limited is available to negotiate the acquistion of any eTLD by your current applicants (or the community at large).

The website at www.e2p.com contains some preliminary information that will be of use to prospective applicants.

Please note that the information on the website is currently restricted to generic topics, so that we (and our associates) can finish of filing various collaborative patent applications.

We are, however, open to negotiating with any organisation that would seek to procure an eTLD. This of course will need to be under the cloak of a suitable Non Disclosure Agreement so that we can continue with our collaborative patent applications without fears of public disclosure.

In a climate that reports 40,000 domain name registrations every day, e2p limited anticipate registering over a million new TLD to compliment the current range of gTLD and ccTLD.

SECONDLY

I wish to protest over the processes that you have used to seek new applications for TLD. You have advertised the new opportunity to create new TLD to "The Internet Technical Community" yet left the majority of "Internet Business Modellers" totally in the dark.

The global transition of Old Media businesses to New Media businesses places such incredible demands upon the general business world that few large organisations have time to model, produce a business plan, seek the approval of the Board of Directors and then get a cheque signed for $50,000 ... in the short period that ICANN allowed. This is tantamount to the advertising of new products to supermarket shelf stackers without informing the management of their existence - then telling management after the cutoff for orders has closed.

What Director in any large organisation keeps his eyes glued to the ICANN website year after year amid rumours that such TLD's as .shop are coming yet failing to arrive - to find that in six short weeks the door has been opened and closed on them. Furthermore, your public comment period is so small - it often takes 4 to 6 weeks to prepare a proper report, so how can you expect expert quailty information when you don't provide an opportunity for experts to prepare their submissions. Your policies in these matters can only retard the internet's development at large and your ignorance of media communication channels is deplorable.

Have no doubt that every business will have the opportunity of registering an eTLD with e2p limited.

I have attached to this email some text that appears on the www.e2p.com website.

Yours sincerely,

Anthony Harrison
Director
e2p Limited