RE: [ga] ICANN Opens Comment Period on Proposed Add Grace Period Modifications for NeuStar and Afilias

["Dominik Filipp" <dominik.filipp@xxxxxxxx>]

Glen,

I would suggest to proceed with the Domain Tasting issue in general instead of 
focusing on partial solutions per registry. Or, does it mean the issue has been 
postponed? Or, that the mentioned registries will have to implement the 
amendment twice? First time when a specific amendment for the registry and the 
second time when a general tasting solution have been identified and approved?
A bit bewildered...

Dominik


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ICANN Opens Comment Period on Proposed Add Grace Period Modifications for 
NeuStar and Afilias

27 February 2008

ICANN is today opening public comment periods on requests submitted by NeuStar, 
the .BIZ registry, and Afilias, the .INFO registry, to modify terms regarding 
the add grace period (AGP) in their respective registry agreements.

On 5 February 2008, NeuStar and Afilias submitted separate but similar requests 
through the Registry Services Evaluation Process to modify the AGP in their 
respective TLDs in order "to address the excessive delete problem" (i.e. domain 
tasting) in .BIZ and .INFO. Currently there are no limitations on the number of 
deletions that a registrar can process and receive a refund during the five-day 
AGP. The proposed service would limit the number of AGP deletions where a 
registrar could receive a full registration fee credit each month: either 50 
per month or 10% of that registrar's net new monthly domain name registrations, 
whichever is greater. A registrar would be permitted to delete as many names as 
it wished during the five-day AGP, receiving credit throughout the month. 
However, at the end of the .BIZ or .INFO normal monthly billing cycle the 
Registrar's account would be debited for the full value of the domain name 
registrations that exceeded the month's set threshold.

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

The next step in evaluation is that (because implementation of the proposals 
would require changes to the .BIZ and .INFO Registry
Agreements) ICANN will post the proposed amendments, solicit public comment and 
refer the proposals to the ICANN Board for consideration.

A copy of the proposed NeuStar amendment is available here [PDF, 25K], and a 
copy of the proposed Afilias amendment is available here [PDF, 25K]. Both 
amendments provide for changes to Appendix 7, Section 3.1.1. 
Comments on the NeuStar amendment submitted to neustar-agp-proposal@xxxxxxxxx 
will be considered until 23:59 UTC 28 March 2008 and may be viewed at 
http://forum.icann.org/lists/neustar-agp-proposal/. Comments on the Afilias 
amendment submitted to afilias-agp-proposal@xxxxxxxxx will be considered until 
23:59 UTC 28 March 2008 and may be viewed at 
http://forum.icann.org/lists/afilias-agp-proposal/. Please keep in mind that 
these are separate proposals with separate public comment forums.

All documentation regarding the NeuStar proposal is available at 
http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/submitted_app.html#2008001, while 
documentation on the Afilias proposal is available at
http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/submitted_app.html#2008002

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Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
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