RE: [council] FW: ICANN News Alert -- AGP Deletes Down by 84%

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What GNSO resolution are you talking about Mike.
 
Chuck


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        From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Rodenbaugh
        Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:19 PM
        To: BC List; GNSO Council; agp-limits-policy@xxxxxxxxx
        Subject: [council] FW: ICANN News Alert -- AGP Deletes Down by
84%
        
        

        Below is the 'news alert' from ICANN about the effect of the
budget measure designed to mitigate commercial domain tasting, by
imposing the .20 ICANN fee on every domain deleted over the threshold of
10% of any registrar's net adds in a month.  There has definitely been a
positive impact, with AGP deletes down 84% overall.

         

        Unfortunately, ICANN does not mention that one registrar -
NameKing -- accounted for nearly 40% of the .com AGP deletes in July
(956,000, vs. 12,000 adds).  Another family of registrars - eNom -
accounted for approximately 25% of them (559,000 vs. 203,000 adds). 

        See Verisign registry report here:
http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/monthly-reports/com-net/verisign-200807.pdf


         

        It is particularly glaring that just two registrars accounted
for 1.5 million AGP deletes in .com in one month, apparently
disregarding the will of the Council and ICANN Board, entirely.  Neither
ICANN nor Verisign have mentioned why it is taking so long for Verisign
to implement the GNSO Council resolution that might mitigate the
NameKing and eNom domain tasting business model, as was clearly intended
by a supermajority of Council and the ICANN Board.  Fwiw, many in the
Business Constituency are interested to have some indication of when the
resolution will be implemented, and why it has not been implemented to
date.  

         

        Thanks,

        Mike Rodenbaugh

         

        
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        From: ICANN News Alert [mailto:communications@xxxxxxxxx] 
        Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:49 PM
        To: icann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: ICANN News Alert -- AGP Deletes Down by 84%

         

        ICANN <http://www.icann.org/> 


        News Alert


        
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-13nov08-en.htm

        
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        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/. 

        
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