[council] AGP Deletes Down by 84%

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

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http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-13nov08-en.htm
AGP Deletes Down by 84%

13 November 2008

In June 2008, the ICANN Board approved the FY09 Budget that contained a 
provision on AGP deletes. The provision is that domain names deleted during the 
AGP will be included as transactions if they exceed the maximum of (i) 10% of 
that registrar's net new registrations in that month, or (ii) fifty (50) domain 
names, whichever is greater. Therefore the per-transaction fee, currently 
US$0.20, will be assessed on all AGP deletes that exceed the defined threshold.

This provision was adopted as a short-term solution to address excessive AGP 
delete activity until the consensus policy on domain tasting, now referred to 
as the AGP Limits Policy, is implemented. The Policy and draft implementation 
plan were posted for public comment on 20 October 2008 (see, 
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-20oct08-en.htm) and are 
expected to be announced for implementation in early December.

Following implementation of the Board approved budget provision that affects 
the "domain tasting fee," names added and subsequently deleted during the 
five-day AGP declined from approximately 17.6M in June 2008 to 2.8M in July 
2008. Of the 2.8M AGP deletes in July, approximately 2.6M were subject to the 
registrar-level transaction fee defined by the provision. Therefore, it is 
expected that the quantity of AGP deletes will continue to decline until few or 
none are subject to the transaction fee.

ICANN will continue to provide updates to the community on AGP delete activity 
following the three-month confidentiality period for gTLD monthly reports. 
These reports may be viewed at http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/monthly-reports/.

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
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