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

[Craig Schwartz <craig.schwartz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mike,

I unfortunately will not be able to attended today's GNSO Council call and to 
provide an update on the AGP Limits Policy, and include here a response to your 
inquiry.

During the GNSO PDP on domain tasting, there was discussion and acknowledgement 
that implementing a consensus policy on domain tasting could take many months. 
Recognizing the community's interest in this issue and that it could take up to 
six months to implement a new policy, the ICANN Board adopted the AGP budget 
provision (assessing the registrar-level transaction fee on excessive AGP 
deletes) as a short-term measure to address domain tasting.

Following the Board's adoption of the GNSO recommendation, ICANN reached out to 
the gTLD registry constituency to seek their guidance around how they might 
define some of the terms (e.g., extraordinary circumstances, recurring 
regularly, etc.) in the recommendation. A number of gTLD registries responded 
to the outreach and their input was factored into the draft implementation 
plan. The draft plan was then circulated to the registry and registrar 
constituencies for input as the Policy has a direct impact on their operations. 
Feedback that was received was incorporated to the draft plan and that plan was 
posted for public comment on 20 October 2008.

The public comment on the implementation plan closes today, 20 November 2008. 
Following publication of the summary and analysis of public comments and any 
minor adjustments to the plan, if necessary, notice to gTLD registries will be 
made to implement the AGP Limits Policy.

If you have further questions about this, please do not hesitate to call or 
write.

Best,
Craig

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Craig Schwartz
Chief gTLD Registry Liaison
ICANN
1875 I Street, NW, 5th floor
Washington, DC 20006



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%

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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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