[council] Public Comment: Single and Two-Character .BIZ Domains

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Public Comment: Single and Two-Character .BIZ Domains

13 February 2009

ICANN is today opening a public comment forum on a proposed amendment from 
NeuStar to Appendix 6 and 7 of the .BIZ Registry Agreement.

On 31 October 2008, ICANN posted for public information a request submitted by 
NeuStar through the Registry Services Evaluation Process for a phased 
allocation process for single and two-character names in .BIZ. The NeuStar 
proposal is available at 
http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/neustar-request-2008010-31oct08.pdf 
[PDF, 100K].

As provided for by existing consensus policy 
(http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/rsep.html), ICANN has undertaken a 
preliminary determination to determine whether the proposal might raise 
significant security or stability, or competition issues. ICANN's determination 
is that the proposal did not raise such issues in .BIZ.

[Note that, from 13 June to 13 July 2008, ICANN conducted a public comment 
forum on a proposed single-character second-level domain names allocation 
framework 
(http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/proposed-scsld-allocation-framework-13jun08.htm),
 which supported the allocation single-character second-level domain names in 
existing registries and reviewed various allocation methods.]

The proposal requires an amendment the .BIZ List of Reserved TLD Strings 
(Appendix 6) and a description of the phased allocation program is proposed to 
be inserted at the 7.2 of Appendix 7. A copy of the proposed amendment is 
available here [PDF, 24K]. Comments on the proposed amendment submitted to 
biz-alloc-amendment at icann.org will be considered until 15 Mar 2009 23:59 
UTC. Comments may be viewed at 
http://forum.icann.org/lists/biz-alloc-amendment/.

All documentation related to the NeuStar proposal is available at 
http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/#2008010

Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
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