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

[Robin Gross]

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> From: "GNSO.SECRETARIAT at GNSO.ICANN.ORG"  
> <gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org>
> Date: February 28, 2008 10:51:13 AM PST
> To: "'Council GNSO'" <council at gnso.icann.org>
> Subject: [council] 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]
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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 at icann.org 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 at icann.org 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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