Dear DotAsia Member, 

The nomination period for the DotAsia Board Elections 2023 was completed on January 20, 2023.  I am writing to you to announce that the nomination results can be found at https://nominations.board2023.dot.asia/ and for your convenience are included in the table below.

 

Your attention is also drawn to the ** IMPORTANT INFORMATION for The Electorate, immediately below this Candidate details table:

 

Candidate

Member Category

Nominated By

Seconded By

Candidate Confirmation

Candidate Sub-Region

Nicole T. I. CHAN

Sponsor Member

TWNIC (.TW)

JPRS (.JP)

Accepted

North and East Asia

Kashif ADEEL

Sponsor Member

PH Domain Foundation (.PH)

UZINFOCOM (.UZ)

Accepted

Middle East and Western Asia

Santanu ACHARYA

Sponsor Member

KazNIC (.KZ)

Datacom Co., Ltd. (.MN)

Accepted

Central and South East Asia

Jose Emmanuel DISINI

Sponsor Member

AfgNIC (.AF)

KazNIC (.KZ)

Accepted

Central and South East Asia

Khan Md. Mahfuzus SALAM

Co-Sponsor Member

APNG

APRALO

Accepted

N/A

Tenanoia SIMONA

Sponsor Member

The IUSN Foundation (.NU)

ccTLD-ID (.ID)

Accepted

Australasia and Pacific

Thomas BARRETT

Sponsor Member

PW Registry Corp. (.PW)

JPRS (.JP)

Accepted

Not in Asia Pacific

Akinori MAEMURA

Co-Sponsor Member

APNIC

APTLD

Accepted

N/A

Maureen HILYARD

Sponsor Member

JPRS (.JP)

SGNIC (.SG)

Accepted

Australasia and Pacific

Jordan CARTER

Sponsor Member

auDA (.AU)

TWNIC (.TW)

Accepted

Australasia and Pacific

 


**IMPORTANT INFORMATION for The Electorate: Based on the DotAsia Board Election Procedures,  


SPONSOR CATEGORY

1.  DotAsia will enter into the voting process, which starts on Jan 30 (Mon), and ends on Feb 13, 2023 (Mon) at 23:59 UTC (i.e. a period of 2 weeks), with the following 8 candidates up for election for the 4 seats in the Sponsor Member category:

 

Nicole T. I. CHAN

Kashif ADEEL

Santanu ACHARYA

Jose Emmanuel DISINI

Tenanoia SIMONA

Thomas BARRETT

Maureen HILYARD

Jordan CARTER

 


2. In accordance with the geographical diversity requirement specified in Article 33 of the M&A, there shall be at least 1 Director elected for the sub-region of Australasia and Pacific, and the 3 candidates from that sub-region are:

 

Tenanoia SIMONA

Maureen HILYARD

Jordan CARTER

 

After voting, the one who receives the highest number of votes for the sub-region of Australasia and Pacific will be deemed elected and the rest of the 3 vacancies will be filled by the top 3 candidates from the remaining 7 candidates.   

 


 

CO-SPONSOR CATEGORY

3.  DotAsia will enter into the voting process, which starts on Jan 30 (Mon), and ends on Feb 13, 2023 (Mon) at 23:59 UTC (i.e. a period of 2 weeks), with the following 2 candidates up for election for the 1 seat in the Co-Sponsor Member category:

 

Khan Md. Mahfuzus SALAM

Akinori MAEMURA

 

After voting, the one who receives the highest number of votes will be deemed elected.

 

 

All the available candidate bios and statements of interest (SOI) will be posted on the voting platform and https://www.dot.asia/board-elections-2023/ at the start of the voting period.  For more information about the voting process, please refer to our procedures document at

 https://www.dot.asia/policies/BGC004-BoardElectionsProcedures-v1-5-20221221.pdf.  

 

Whitelisting

 

1.  BigPulse is the online voting platform used for this election. BigPulse sends emails from the domain name mail1.bigpulse.com which currently uses IP addresses: 209.15.228.130 and 5.44.17.248, please whitelist these IP addresses.  A customized ballot including voting instructions will be sent to the Voting Representative of each Sponsor Member and Co-Sponsor Member at the start of the voting period.

 

2. Upon voting, a vote receipt will be sent to the voter and copied to the third-party scrutineer (jesse@abacushkcpa.com).  Additionally, the scrutineer will send out a confirmation email to each voter and the voter is required to reply to the scrutineer within 48 hours.  Any votes that are not confirmed within 48 hours may be counted as invalid.  Please whitelist jesse@abacushkcpa.com. 

 

 

Thank you for your attention to this message, and we look forward to your participation in this year’s elections.




Regards, 

Cheryl Langdon-Orr

DotAsia Election Chair 2023