First of all I would like to thank everyone who put in the work and applied for any of the positions. It was hard to choose from so many very good candidates. None of them would have been a bad fit for the role, but only one can be selected for each position. I also gave a slight preference to teams over individuals, just because they can handle the workload better. Perhaps some of the applicants can team up in the future when they’ll run for domain allocators again.
In New Protocols and Ideas, I voted for @Gabriel and Diego. Gabriel has been very active in the crypto space and also has extensive experience from the tradfi world, including evaluating investments for a family office. He has presented a good overview of how he intends to work as domain allocator, focusing on bold new ideas in the most important niches of crypto today, including AI which is probably the hottest of them all.
In Education, Community Growth, and Events, I voted for @SEEDGov. They have past experience as domain allocator, and they have successfully demonstrated their diligent work in other initiatives, too. They have a clear vision and well-defined key factors for approval or rejection of an application.
Dev Tooling on One and Stylus - this was a tough one. All three applications are great. In the end, I went with @ariutokintumi and Arturo. They are both software developers who won several hackathon prizes, organized a hackathon before (which means good connections with developers), and developed multiple libraries on their own.
In the Gaming domain I voted for @Flook and Nikki. Flook brings previous experience as a domain allocator as well as experience from running a gaming studio. Nikki brings good connections with creators from the web2 world, and personal experience as a Twitch streamer.
As I said, all the candidates are great and I wish whoever is chosen all the best with their work as domain allocators!