[council] LAUNCH OF DNSO FUND-RAISING EFFORT
- To: "'Philip Sheppard'" <philip.sheppard@aim.be>, "NC (list)" <council@dnso.org>
- Subject: [council] LAUNCH OF DNSO FUND-RAISING EFFORT
- From: "Cochetti, Roger" <RCochetti@verisign.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 08:18:25 -0400
- Sender: owner-council@dnso.org
As you
know, after quite a few months of preparation, we are now about to launch the
fund-raising efforts for voluntary donations to the DNSO. These funds, which will be matched by
donations from VeriSign Global Registry Services for up to $100,000, are
primarily designed to cover the costs of providing professional support to the
Names Council. Without them,
baring any other changes, we will continue to operate on a primarily volunteer
basis.
The
purpose of this note is to alert you to the fact that the fund-raising effort
will now begin and ask that you raise this with all of the members of your
Constituency. A fund-raising
document is attached. Contributions,
which are tax deductible in the United States, should be made payable to “ICANN
DNSO ACCOUNT” and mailed to ICANN.
Alternatively, donors may wire transfer their donations as follows:
Information for wire transfer to ICANN account:
Account number 09146-11724
Routing indicator 121000358
Bank of America Branch 0914
4754 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA
Telephone +1/310/247-2080
When making wire transfers, please send tracking information
to
Raising money for the operation of the DNSO and the Names
Council is important. I think that
we all agree that our ability to operate successfully is hindered by our
all-volunteer support and that increased professional support is necessary to
our success. While I know that
many businesses and organizations
-including many large businesses who benefit greatly form the successful
operation of the domain names system-
will claim that they have no funds available for such donations, if each
organization/person who attends Names Council meetings would only donate one
fifth of the amount of money that they spend on travel and entertainment for
ICANN meetings to this effort, we will be amply funded.
Please ask each of your members to make a contribution and
help us push them a little on this.
Roger Cochetti
Chair
Budget Committee
