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

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dominik and all,

  Good point Dominik!  Seems a run-around method from
my perspective.  And BTW, one that does not seem to
facilitate an actual solution either...

Dominik Filipp wrote:

> 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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> Subject: [ga] ICANN Opens Comment Period on Proposed Add Grace Period 
> Modifications for NeuStar and Afilias
>
> [To: council[at]gnso.icann.org; liaison6c[at]gnso.icann.org]
> [To: ga[at]gnso.icann.org; announce[at]gnso.icann.org]
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>
> http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-27feb08.htm
>
> 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
>
> --
> Glen de Saint Géry
> GNSO Secretariat - ICANN
> gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org
> http://gnso.icann.org

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