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 <https://www.dot.asia/policies/BGC004-BoardElectionsProcedures-v1-5-20221221.pdf> , *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.... . 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