.MTR New gTLD Application
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New gTLD Application Submitted to ICANN by: MTR Corporation Limited
Application Downloaded On: 05 Nov 2014
String: MTR
Application ID: 1-2028-44295
Applicant Information
- Full legal name
MTR Corporation Limited
- Address of the principal place of business
MTR Headquarters Building, Telford Plaza,
33 Wai Yip Street, Kowloon Bay Hong Kong HK
- Phone number
+852 29932111
- Fax number
+852 2795 9991
- If applicable, website or URL
http://www.mtr.com.hk
Primary Contact
6(a). Name
Bonnie Pui Man Chun
6(b). Title
Head of Operations
6(c). Address
6(d). Phone Number
+852 9687 3940
6(e). Fax Number
+852 2319 2626
6(f). Email Address
Secondary Contact
7(a). Name
Tat On Jonathan Shea
7(b). Title
CEO
7(c). Address
7(d). Phone Number
+852 6038 6838
7(e). Fax Number
7(f). Email Address
Proof of Legal Establishment
8(a). Legal form of the Applicant
Corporation
8(b). State the specific national or other jurisdiction that defines the type of entity identified in 8(a).
Hong Kong
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.
Hong Kong Stock Exchange / 66
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
Cheung Morris Siu-wa Human Resources Director
Chew Tai Chong Projects Director
David Tang Chi-fai Property Director
Gillian Elizabeth Meller Legal Director & Secretary
Jacob Kam Chak-pui Operations Director
Jeny Yeung Mei-chun Commercial Director
Law Cheuk Kin Stephen Finance Director
Lincoln Leong Kwok-kuen Acting CEO
11(b). Name(s) and position(s) of all officers and partners
Name
Position
Lincoln Leong Kwok-kuen Acting CEO
11(c). Name(s) and position(s) of all shareholders holding at least 15% of shares
Name
Position
The Financial Secretary Incorporated (in trust on behalf of the Government of HKSAR)
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.
MTR
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 gTLD string applied for is MTR. Its A-label is MTR. It is not an IDN.
The A-label is a valid label as specified in RFC1035 and RFC2181.
The A-label is no more than 63 characters, and upper and lower cases characters are treated as identical.
The A-label is a valid hostname as specified in RFC952, RFC1123, RFC3696, RFC5890-5894.
The A-label consists entirely of letters. It is composed of three visually distinct characters.
As a result, we do not see any operational or rendering problems.
- 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.
MTR Corporation Limited intends to apply for the TLD .MTR for the purpose of branding and exclusive internal use. Nevertheless, understanding that operating a TLD means operating a critical part of the Internet, MTR Corporation Limited is committed to promoting competition, consumer trust, and consumer choice. While contemplating applying for our own TLD, MTR Corporation Limited and its consultant Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Limited (HKIRC) identified a number of issues that are related to the said commitment, including consumer protection, security, stability and resilience, malicious abuse issues, sovereignty concerns, and rights protection. MTR Corporation Limited is also committed to enforcing the existing policy relating to WHOIS, subject to the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
In view of our said commitments, MTR Corporation Limited has adopted the mission of operating a world-class, trusted, resilient and robust, stable and secure, domain name space that is an integral part of the Internet.
In our subsequent responses in this application, we will demonstrate how our proposed operational, technical, and financial plans for .MTR will address the issues pertaining to our commitments.
18B. How do you expect that your proposed gTLD will benefit registrants, Internet users, and others?
.MTR, our proposed TLD, shall be operated with the aim of promoting the brand of MTR Corporation Limited. Contents under the TLD shall include all the trusted information and online services related to different businesses of the MTR Corporation Limited world-wide. Having a TLD exclusively used for the Corporation’s online content, Internet users would find it much easier and secure to access to the information they needed regarding our businesses and railway services.
In view of the above mentioned goals, domain names under .MTR TLD will not be opened publicly for registration. Domain names created at the second and lower levels will be for the use of different subsidiaries of MTR and their different products and services. Adequate internal controls shall be adopted within MTR Corporation Limited to ensure compliance with the registry agreement to be signed with ICANN upon registration of domain names internally.
Furthermore, MTR Corporation Limited shall comply with Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in our dealings related to the .MTR TLD.
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?
As mentioned before, even though .MTR shall be used exclusively within MTR Corporation Limited, we shall adopt appropriate policies and internal controls for domain name registrations under the TLD.