[council] Interest Sought in Receiving Names from De-Accredited Registrar

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Interest Sought in Receiving Names from De-Accredited Registrar

12 September 2008

As the result of the de-accreditation of Esoftwiz Inc. (IANA ID 614), ICANN is 
seeking Statements of Interest from ICANN-accredited registrars that are 
interested in assuming sponsorship of the gTLD names that had been managed by 
Esoftwiz Inc.

Esoftwiz Inc. managed approximately 1,200 gTLD registrations, including 
registrations in the com and net registries, and is based in Ontario, Canada. 
ICANN has secured all available Whois data for the current registrations. There 
are approximately 8 second-level internationalized domain names under this 
registrar's sponsorship in the com and net zones.

Request for Statements of Interest

ICANN-accredited registrars who wish to be considered as a potential recipient 
of a bulk transfer of the names should be in good standing with regard to all 
ICANN-obligations and submit a written statement of interest by no later than 
23:00 UTC on Friday, 19 September 2008, with a description of qualification, 
which includes at least:

Registrar experience, including number of registrations and customers managed;
Availability of sufficient customer service staffing to timely respond to 
customer service requests during and shortly after the bulk transfer;
Ability to communicate with customers in languages other than English;
A list of the gTLDs in which accredited and operational;
Experience with and knowledge of bulk-transfer procedures;
Documentation of procedures to resolve potential disputes of domain name 
control or registration rights (in the event of contested ownership or 
inaccurate Whois data);
Experience as a customer-facing / "retail" registrar business;
Experience with second-level IDNs in the com and net zones;
Ability to provide ICANN with regular status reports.
Expressions of interest should indicate, approximately, the amount of time 
needed by the applicant-registrar to prepare to receive the bulk transfer.

This request for information/expressions of interest is made pursuant to the 
Draft/Interim Terminated Registrar Transition Procedure posted at 
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-06jun08-en.htm. ICANN 
reserves the right to entertain any or none of the statements of interest 
submitted in response to this request and to select or approve a bulk-transfer 
recipient outside this process. To the extent confidential treatment of any 
information in the submission is required, such information should be 
designated accordingly. Questions and submissions should be submitted by email 
to mike.zupke @ icann.org.

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://gnso.icann.org