Shock and disbelief are the two best words to describe the feeling that came over the dotgay team when ICANN announced the highly anticipated Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) this week. With a required CPE score of 14 or better on a 16 point test, ICANN delivered the blow that the gay community was not gay enough to outright win .GAY with a grade of only 10. ICANN has now forced the gay community into an auction and bidding war with non-LGBTQI investors who hope to snag .GAY out from under the community.

The complete scorecard result is available HERE with bullet points below highlighting some of the claims by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), ICANN's third party evaluators. The EIU is part of The Economist Group and The Economist magazine, a publication that frequently uses the word GAY to refer to the varied segments in our community. The EIU's critique of the only community-based application for .GAY however shows a clear double standard, one which penalizes the community for using the word GAY in the exact same manner.

The show of LGBTQIA global solidarity to a community operated .GAY is one that the EIU missed the boat on, rejecting the common-use umbrella application of GAY to be inclusive of our communities varied segments. It's not a debate about being the best or only word, just a commonly used word, and we can all agree that when Hilary Clinton declared "gay rights are human rights" at the United Nations, she was not excluding trans and intersex.

Several of our supporters have already taken to social media to express their outrage as ICANN prepares to assemble in Los Angeles tomorrow for a week of meetings. #ICANNisBroken & @ICANN appear to be the chosen handles to assemble these thoughts, which currently call on ICANN to rethink accepting the EIU's ruling. This is not the time to be invisible or silent, even thought many hope we will be, so amplify your social media voices and share your thoughts with ICANN.

Here are some key parts from the EIU ruling: