.cfa New gTLD Application
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New gTLD Application Submitted to ICANN by: CFA Institute
Application Downloaded On: 24 Oct 2014
String: cfa
Application ID: 1-1877-69334
Applicant Information
- Full legal name
CFA Institute
- Address of the principal place of business
915 E. High Street Charlottesville, Virginia - 22902 US
- Phone number
434 951 5310
- Fax number
434 951 5320
- If applicable, website or URL
https://www.cfainstitute.org
Primary Contact
6(a). Name
Nathan Van Hooser
6(b). Title
Director, Global Network Engineering, IT Operations
6(c). Address
6(d). Phone Number
(434) 951-5524
6(e). Fax Number
6(f). Email Address
Secondary Contact
7(a). Name
Heidi Herrington
7(b). Title
Head, Marketing and Brand Management
7(c). Address
7(d). Phone Number
434 951 5344
7(e). Fax Number
434 951 5320
7(f). Email Address
Proof of Legal Establishment
8(a). Legal form of the Applicant
Non-stock corporation
8(b). State the specific national or other jurisdiction that defines the type of entity identified in 8(a).
Commonwealth of Virginia, USA
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.
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
Aaron H.W. Low Governor
Alan M. Meder Vice Chairman, Board of Governors
Attila K. Koksal Governor
Charles J. Yang Governor
Daniel S. Meader Chairman, Board of Governors
Elizabeth M. Hamilton-Keen Governor
Frederic P. Lebel Governor
Giuseppe Ballocchi Governor
James G. Jones Governor
Jeffrey D. Lorenzen Governor
Margaret E. Franklin Governor
Matthew H. Scanlan Governor
Pierre Cardon de Lichtbuer Governor
Roger C. Urwin Governor
Saeed M. Al-Hajeri Governor
Zheng Jane Shao Governor
11(b). Name(s) and position(s) of all officers and partners
Name
Position
Dwight D. Churchill President & CEO
Timothy G. McLaughlin Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Financial Officer
11(c). Name(s) and position(s) of all shareholders holding at least 15% of shares
Name
Position
None 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.
cfa
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.
Because Applicant’s proposed .cfa TLD contains only ASCII characters, we do not believe there will be 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.
About CFA Institute
CFA Institute is a global, not-for-profit organization comprising the world’s largest association of investment professionals. At its cornerstone, CFA Institute administers the CFA program and awards the prestigious CFA, Chartered Financial Analyst, designation. The CFA program is a graduate level, self-study examination system for investment professionals. Established around 1963, the CFA program sets the global standard for investment knowledge, standards and ethics, and is highly esteemed worldwide. CFA Institute has over 108,000 members and 135 member societies in 58 countries. The CFA trademark is registered in over 50 countries around the world.
CFA Institute’s mission is to develop and promote the highest educational, ethical, and professional standards in the investment industry. Beyond the CFA program, CFA Institute also offers a range of educational programs and services for our members, program candidates, investors, employers, educational institutions, and the press.
CFA Institute currently has its web presence at cfainstitute.org. Many of its individual products and services have their own web pages. For example, CFA Institute’s educational publications and webcasts can be found at cfapubs.org, its conference offerings at cfaconference.org, and its website dedicated to the GIPS standards - a set of standardized, industry-wide ethical principles that provide investment firms with guidance on how to calculate and report their investment results to prospective clients - resides at GIPS.org. Each of CFA Institute’s 135 member societies also has its own website (for example, the Los Angeles Society has a website at cfala.org).
Proposed Use of the .cfa gTLD
CFA Institute’s goal upon acquisition of the .cfa gTLD is to create a cohesive, trustworthy, credible location for CFA Institute, CFA program, and CFA society content. Operation of the gTLD would allow CFA Institute the opportunity to:
- unite 35+ online properties under a cohesive structure. In the short term, CFA Institute may maintain the existing websites and use the gTLD domains to redirect the public to applicable points of interest;
- deep link into our vast library of educational content (50,000+ pieces) through link shortening to enable faster access and memorable links for our members and the public
- Provide our members greater access to CFA Institute through social media platforms such as Facebook (70,000+ likes) and Twitter (17,000+ followers);
- Reinforce the credibility of the globally recognized “gold standard” of investment credentials, the CFA charter.
18B. How do you expect that your proposed gTLD will benefit registrants, Internet users, and others?
The .cfa gTLD will enable CFA Institute to create a memorable, user-friendly structure for locating CFA Institute content across our web properties. Internet users will benefit because .cfa will provide an enhanced online experience from the existing cfainstitute.org website through its ability to build a more comprehensive and targeted experience for internet users and provide greater control over the domain as a registry operator.
.cfa will function, per the ICANN-Registry Operator Registry Agreement, as a Specification 9 exempt and will carefully monitor and safeguard the user experience to provide users confidence that they have found CFA Institute, and can be certain that users will find the high quality content, information and services associated with CFA Institute.
The .cfa gTLD will make finding content easier and more logical, uniting a universe of investment education and advocacy content under one nomenclature. It also will complement efforts to make more of our content “outside the wall” and not require a member log-in credential to access content.
The gTLD also will help us to better track usage across web platforms to build content that the public we serve needs most.
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?
CFA Institute’s proposed use of the .cfa gTLD is not expected to have any adverse impact upon consumers. .cfa will function, per the ICANN-Registry Operator Registry Agreement, as a Specification 9 exempt system. All second level domains will be registered by CFA Institute and used for the benefit of CFA Institute and its members and affiliates.
Request for Exemption from Code of Conduct per Section 6 of Specification 9 of the Registry Operator Code of Conduct: It is the intent of the applicant to request an exemption from the new gTLD Code of Conduct per Section 6 of the Specification of the Registry Operator Code of Conduct.