RE: [ga] Question to ICANN Staff

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

While I appreciate the helpful speculation from GA-list members, I deem it 
important to obtain an answer from Staff.

When ICANN implemented the registrar data escrow program it was stipulated that:

"The data held in escrow may be released to ICANN upon termination of a 
registrar's accreditation agreement or expiration of the accreditation 
agreement without renewal to facilitate transfer of registrations from the 
failed registrar to another registrar."

It's important for us to know if this process is working.

The most recent semi-annual compliance report indicated, for example, that:
"ICANN also found DropLimited.com, Inc (DropLimited.com) to be in breach of its 
RAA in three specific areas. First, it failed to escrow gTLD registration data"

We need to know if there are still registrars out there that aren't escrowing 
their data.  Was this such a case?  I'm looking for a greater degree of 
transparency from the compliance team.



--- On Fri, 7/17/09, Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [ga] Question to ICANN Staff
> To: "'Danny Younger'" <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>, ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, 
> debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 7:36 AM
> Well one thing is for certain, it
> has nothing to do with the Data Protection Act.
>  
> There is no "safe hands interim".  I
> would be interested to hear any theory that supports the
> notion that the failure to transfer the data is in
> "adherence" to the DPA.  Clearly it would not
> be a legal and well reasoned theory.
>  
> Clearly there is a problem with the escrowed data.
> Perhaps revisiting Karl's remarks....