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    Professional and Business Affiliations

    The International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association

    IGLTAIGLTA is the leading global organization dedicated to connecting businesses in the LGBT tourism industry. Founded in 1983, with 25 founding members, the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) is today a 1500 plus member strong and growing organization of gay, lesbian and community friendly travel professionals in 65 countries.

    The National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce

    NGLCCThe NGLCC is the business advocate and direct link between lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) business owners, corporations, and government, representing the interests of more than 1.4 million LGBT businesses and entrepreneurs. The NGLCC is committed to forming a broad-based coalition of LGBT owned and friendly businesses, professionals, and major corporations for the purpose of promoting economic growth and the prosperity of our members.

    NGLCCNY: The National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, New York

    NGLCCNYNGLCCNY provides valuable business development opportunities, financial access and educational resources to LGBT and allied businesses in the New York Metro area. As the official Metro New York affiliate chamber of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, NGLCCNY is the voice of thousands of LGBT-owned businesses and actively promotes and creates supplier diversity and procurement opportunities for its growing base of corporate partners and business members.

    Statements

    Echelon Business Media, Inc. — United States
    "I believe that a dot gay domain has great potential. It will act as a great new economic and political tool to bring more recognition and respect to the GLBT community" Michael Lamb Editor in Chief
    Berlin Pride — Germany
    "Berlin Pride (CSD Berlin) provides a gigantic stage for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in Berlin. The Parade attracts more than half a million participants and the cultural and educational program consists of hundreds of events from all walks of gay life. dotGAY could be the stage of the worldwide gay community in the internet. We support the initiative to create a .gay top level domain. "
    Robert Kastl Executive Director
    Name.com — United States
    "Name.com believes strongly in personal identity and supports dotGay in it's endeavor to create a .GAY TLD. We believe dotGay will provide a unique opportunity for businesses to court gay dollars and for LGBTQ individuals to find highly targeted information in an easy to navigate manner."
    Bill Mushkin CEO
    Key-Systems — Germany
    "In our view it is crucial for the success of new gTLDs that they have a defined target group, that they are run by experienced people from the domain industry and that they are valuable to the registrant. Not many new gTLDs currently in discussion fulfill these criteria. However, we do strongly believe that .GAY meet the requirements and brings it to a perfect fit. .GAY will be among the new gTLDs that have a successful future in the community and the internet."
    Alexander Siffrin Founder and CEO
    STRATO — Europe
    "STRATO welcomes new Top Level Domains as they are able to add new potential to the market. Headquartered in Berlin, we're in close touch with one of the largest GLBT Communities throughout Europe. From our personal experience, we know the power of the Gay Movement and thus strongly believe in a huge worldwide support for the dotGay TLD, turning it quickly into a success story, and providing identity and pride to the Community even in less 'liberal' regions of the world "
    Damian Schmidt CEO
    Tucows — Canada
    "At Tucows we believe that the most successful new domain names will be those that have a strong community and that people will want to identify with. We believe both of these definitely apply to dot gay. We think that this is the type of new domain that will lead to people changing their views on the way naming on the Internet works."
    Elliot Noss President and CEO
    Instra Corporation — Australia
    "Instra is supportive of the dotGAY initiative. It is important that with the advent of new gTLD's, those organizations that are focused on benefitting their community succeed in providing these new domains, dotGAY is such an organization."
    Andrew Barton CEO
    Oxford Pride Group — United Kingdom
    "Oxford Pride Group wish to support the dotGAY TLD initiative. dotGAY is a fabulous idea – we are an international community and by providing a TLD this will help to ensure the ongoing sustainable future of our global villages.oxfordpride.org.uk but oxfordpride.gay would be so much better! be OUT, be VISIBLE, be .GAY!."
    Mazz Image Chair & Director

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