.alstom New gTLD Application
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New gTLD Application Submitted to ICANN by: ALSTOM
Application Downloaded On: 10 Apr 2015
String: alstom
Application ID: 1-1135-17943
Applicant Information
- Full legal name
ALSTOM
- Address of the principal place of business
3 Avenue André Malraux Levallois-Perret -
92300 FR
- Phone number
+33 1 41 49 20 00
- Fax number
+33 1 41 49 79 35
- If applicable, website or URL
http://www.alstom.com
Primary Contact
6(a). Name
Sophie Coignet
6(b). Title
Intellectual Property Law Counsel
6(c). Address
6(d). Phone Number
+33 1 41 49 36 86
6(e). Fax Number
+33 1 41 49 79 07
6(f). Email Address
Secondary Contact
7(a). Name
Elaine West
7(b). Title
Director, Communications at Alstom
7(c). Address
7(d). Phone Number
+ 33 (0)1 41 49 20 00
7(e). Fax Number
+33 1 41 49 79 35
7(f). Email Address
Proof of Legal Establishment
8(a). Legal form of the Applicant
Société Anonyme (Private Limited Liability Company)
8(b). State the specific national or other jurisdiction that defines the type of entity identified in 8(a).
French Commercial Code, Code de commerce, Livre II, Titre II, Chapitre V, Articles L225-1 and following: http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCode.do?cidTexte=LEGITEXT000005634379&dateTexte=vig
8(c). Attach evidence of the applicant's establishment.
Attachments are not displayed on this form.
9(a). If applying company is publicly traded, provide the exchange and symbol.
Euronext / ALO
9(b). If the applying entity is a subsidiary, provide the parent company.
9(c). If the applying entity is a joint venture, list all joint venture partners.
Applicant Background
11(a). Name(s) and position(s) of all directors
Name
Position
Alan Thomson Member of the Audit Committee
Candace Krugman Beinecke Member of the Nominations and Remuneration Committee
Georges Chodron de Courcel Member of the Audit Committee
Gérard Hauser Member of the Nominations and Remuneration Committee
James William Leng Chairman of the Nominations and Remuneration Committee
Jean-Martin Folz Chairman of the Ethics, Compliance and Sustainability Committee
Jean-Paul Béchat Chairman of the Audit Committee
Katrina Landis Member of the Ethics, Compliance and Sustainability Committee
Klaus Mangold Member of the Nominations and Remuneration Committee
Lalita Dileep Gupte Member of the Audit Committee
Olivier Bouygues Member of the Nominations and Remuneration Committee
Pascal Colombani Member of the Ethics, Compliance, Sustainability and Audit Committees
Patrick Kron Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Philippe Marien Member of the Audit Committee
11(b). Name(s) and position(s) of all officers and partners
Name
Position
Bruno Guillemet Senior Vice-President, Human Resources
Grégoire Poux-Guillaume President of Alstom Grid and Executive Vice-President
Henri Poupart-Lafarge President of Alstom Transport and Executive Vice President
Jérôme Pécresse President of Alstom Renewable Power and Executive Vice-President
Keith Carr Group General Counsel
Nicolas Tissot Chief Financial Officer
Patrick Kron Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Philippe Cochet President of Alstom Thermal Power and Executive Vice-President
11(c). Name(s) and position(s) of all shareholders holding at least 15% of shares
Name
Position
Bouygues Not Applicable
11(d). For an applying entity that does not have directors, officers, partners, or shareholders: Name(s) and position(s) of all individuals having legal or executive responsibility
Applied-for gTLD string
- Provide the applied-for gTLD string. If an IDN, provide the U-label.
alstom
14A. If applying for an IDN, provide the A-label (beginning with "xn--").
14B. If an IDN, provide the meaning, or restatement of the string in English, that is, a description of the literal meaning of the string in the opinion of the applicant.
14C1. If an IDN, provide the language of the label (in English).
14C2. If an IDN, provide the language of the label (as referenced by ISO-639-1).
14D1. If an IDN, provide the script of the label (in English).
14D2. If an IDN, provide the script of the label (as referenced by ISO 15924).
14E. If an IDN, list all code points contained in the U-label according to Unicode form.
15A. If an IDN, upload IDN tables for the proposed registry. An IDN table must include:
the applied-for gTLD string relevant to the tables,
the script or language designator (as defined in BCP 47),
table version number,
effective date (DD Month YYYY), and
contact name, email address, and phone number.
Submission of IDN tables in a standards-based format is encouraged.
15B. Describe the process used for development of the IDN tables submitted, including consultations and sources used.
15C. List any variants to the applied-for gTLD string according to the relevant IDN tables.
- Describe the applicant's efforts to ensure that there are no known operational or rendering problems concerning the applied-for gTLD string. If such issues are known, describe steps that will be taken to mitigate these issues in software and other applications.
The .alstom Registry (and CORE Internet Council of Registrars as its technical provider) ensured that there are no known operational or rendering problems concerning the applied-for gTLD string "alstom".
Since the gTLD string "alstom" is an ASCII-only string, it is safe to assume that, just like with existing ASCII-only TLD strings like .com, .net or .de, no operational or rendering problems may be expected. In particular, the name consists only of ASCII characters that are already used for existing top level domains; all the characters in the name are even used in the leftmost position of existing TLD labels. In order to confirm this, CORE Internet Council of Registrars conducted a thorough research regarding whether operational or rendering issues occurred for any existing ASCII-only top level domain in the past. The results of this research confirmed the assumption.
Since the registry does not support right-to-left scripts on the second level, bi-directional issues (like the ones described at http://stupid.domain.name/node/683) will not occur.
Moreover, the gTLD string exclusively uses characters from a single alphabet, does not contain digits or hyphens, and it contains characters that are not subject to homograph issues, which means there is no potential for confusion with regard to the rendering of other TLD strings.
Finally, CORE Internet Council of Registrars set up a testing environment for the .alstom TLD using the CORE Registration System, including an EPP SRS, Whois and DNS servers, in order to conduct a series of tests involving typical use cases (like web site operation and e-mail messaging) for a TLD. The tests revealed no operational or rendering issues with any popular software (web browsers, e-mail clients) or operating systems.
- OPTIONAL.
Provide a representation of the label according to the International Phonetic Alphabet (http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/).
18A. Describe the mission/purpose of your proposed gTLD.
According to the Applicant, the purpose of the TLD is manifold, as will be further explained below:
- Reflect and operate Applicant’s key and most distinctive brand (“ALSTOM”) at the top level of the DNS’ hierarchy;
- Provide stakeholders of the Applicant, including subsidiaries, and their respective suppliers, customers, sponsorships, and their respective directors, officers, employees, with a recognizable and trusted identifier on the Internet;
- Provide such stakeholders with a secure and safe Internet environment that is mainly or even fully under the control of the Applicant and its subcontractors;
- Provide selected stakeholders in ALSTOM brands with the opportunity to create a secure and safe Internet environment that is mainly or even fully under control of the Applicant and⁄or such stakeholders;
18B. How do you expect that your proposed gTLD will benefit registrants, Internet users, and others?
- ALSTOM is Applicant’s most recognized brand, having international exposure, and is a world leader in the power generation, electricity transmission and rail transport global markets. The proposed gTLD aims at consolidating the reputation of the Applicant’s brand;
- From the Applicant’s perspective, .ALSTOM will bring a high degree of recognition and specialization to the currently existing name space. Where in most cases the specific connotation that has been initially given to the gTLDs (or even ccTLDs) has disappeared, the .ALSTOM top-level domain will be unambiguous as regards the identity of the Registry Operator, the source of the content and services offered under the .ALSTOM and⁄or the affiliation between the Registry Operator and the TLD;
- As mentioned in the vision ⁄ mission statement before, some of the key reasons why Applicant is applying for .ALSTOM are:
- Marketing and branding: reflect the Applicant’s key brand ALSTOM at the top-level of the DNS’ hierarchy,
- Safety and security, given the fact that the TLD and most if not all of the domain names registered therein will be completely or at least partially under the control of the Registry Operator;
- Affiliation between the core ALSTOM brand and the hundreds of product brands registered and⁄or used by ALSTOM and⁄or its subsidiaries in their day-to-day business;
- The Applicant intends to implement the following policies and procedures with respect to the registration of domain names in the .ALSTOM top-level domain to include but not limited to:
- Reservation of domain names in the name of the Applicant. These names include:
- a) descriptive names, referring to the actual day-to-day business activities of the Applicant and⁄or its subsidiaries;
- b) descriptive names, referring to the internal departments of the Applicant;
- c) descriptive names, referring to the subsidiaries of the Applicant;
- d) product and service brands promoted by the Applicant and⁄or its subsidiaries now and in the future;
- e)
- Launch of the TLD:
- a) Sunrise: allow physical persons, organizations and entities that meet the eligibility requirements in force at that point in time to choose the domain names that are identical to their trademarks;
- b) General availability: other available domain names may be registered by physical persons, organizations and entities that meet the eligibility requirements in force at that point in time to choose the domain names in accordance with the applicable terms and conditions.
- c) Depending on the terms and conditions in force at the time of launch of the TLD, these domain names may or may not be registered in the name of the applicant for the domain name or in the name of the Applicant for the TLD (ALSTOM). In any case, the Applicant reserves the right to impose additional and other restrictions from time to time at its sole discretion;
- Given the fact that the Applicant is a company that is established in France, it is subject to both national and European privacy and data protection rules and practices.
- The Applicant is a multinational group that was established in 1928 and has been trading under the ALSTOM brand (until 1998, it traded under the ALSTHOM brand) and domain name (alstom.com) for various decades. Since its establishment, it has become a worldwide leader in power generation, electricity transmission and rail transport markets. Therefore, the Applicant has different ways in order to make existing and future clients, visitors and stakeholders aware of the (gradual) move from the Group’s alstom.com domain name to the .ALSTOM TLD, including but not limited to
- Internet advertising campaigns;
- having Internet traffic to its key domain names resolving into domain names registered in the .ALSTOM TLD;
- email marketing campaigns;etc.
18C. What operating rules will you adopt to eliminate or minimize social costs (e.g., time or financial resource costs, as well as various types of consumer vulnerabilities)? What other steps will you take to minimize negative consequences/costs imposed upon consumers?
- The Applicant will organize the registry operation for the .ALSTOM in such a manner that it will minimize the likelihood of having multiple applications for a particular domain name. This can be achieved in one of the following ways:
- Given the fact that, at least prior to the launch of the .ALSTOM top-level domain, the Applicant ⁄ Registry Operator will reserve, delegate and use a large number of domain names that are directly or indirectly relevant to Applicant’s business in its own name. Since quite a number of these domain names will be of a descriptive nature, the chances for qualifying ⁄ eligible applicants ⁄ registrants to register such domain names after the launch will be limited;
- The Registry Operator will release available domain names post launch in a highly controlled manner, which also reduces the likelihood that two or more applicants qualify for the registration of the same domain name in the .ALSTOM top-level domain;
- As a method of last resort, and subject to the actual domain name registration policy adopted by the Registry Operator and in force at the time of registration, domain names will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
- The Applicant intends to make the .ALSTOM top-level domain available to qualifying domain name registrants at no cost to them; The Applicant ⁄ Registry Operator may, at its discretion charge a fee for the registration of domain names under the .ALSTOM TLD.
- The Applicant ⁄ Registry Operator may at its discretion make contractual commitments to increase or decrease the fees for the registration of domain names under the .ALSTOM TLD.