.Music LLC CPE Reconsideration Request Denied

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.Music LLC sought reconsideration for Community Priority Evaluation in an effort to be given priority over others who are interested in running .music. .Music LLC believed that when their application was looked at that the panel failed to comply with already established ICANN policies. The board governance committee denied the reconsideration request.

From the report released by ICANN

The Requester, .music LLC, seeks reconsideration of the Community Priority Evaluation(“CPE”) Panel’s report (the “Report”), and ICANN’s acceptance of that Report, finding that the Requester did not prevail in CPE for .MUSIC. In light of the CPE results, while the Requester’s application will not be given priority over other applications for the same string, it is still in contention to ultimately be, following contention resolution, the prevailing application for .MUSIC

The Requester submitted a community – based application for .MUSIC (the “Application”).

The Application was placed in a contention set with other applications for .MUSIC. As the Application is community – based, the Requester was invited to, and did, participate in CPE. The Application did not prevail in CPE. As a result, the Application goes back into contention with the other applications for .MUSIC.

The Requester claims that the CPE panel that determined the Application did not prevail in CPE (the “CPE Panel”) failed to comply with established ICANN policies and procedures in rendering its R eport.

Specifically, the Requester contends that the CPE Panel: (i) improperly applied the CPE criteria; and (ii) failed to ask the Requester clarifying questions and give it an

opportunity to respond to letters submitted in opposition to the Application. The Requester’s claims are unsupported. The Requester has not demonstrated that the

CPE Panel acted in contravention of established policy or procedure in rendering the Report.

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