Hi,

They would need to have an interface to any outside registrar who wanted to meet their constraints and conditions because the Registry Code of Conduct requirements say they need to be.   Unless of course they get an exceptions, which it looks like ICANN will at least consider.  


And of course there are probably lots of ways to do it, including Timothe's pigeons, but the easiest and cleanest way of doing it as far as I know is EPP.  Since I beleive they are required to use EPP anyway.

I know rules rules rules.  But this is ICANN, if you incant the words to the right entity, there is always an exception or extra privilege to be had.

avri



On 12 Mar 2013, at 22:17, Horacio T. Cadiz wrote:

> On 03/12/2013 01:56 AM, Avri Doria wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> As a mental exercise, what are the technical implications and risks of private/restricted TLDs other than the addition of EPP functionality for confirming when a registration is allowed?
> 
>  For closed TLDs (brand or generic), why would they need EPP if they themselves
> plan to run their own registrars?
> 
>  I see no logic why a dotBrand, say .IBM, would need to go through an outside
> registrar for the company to register domains for its own use.
> 
>  For closed generics, if one agrees with the premise that registration is restricted to those approved by the registry, why would the registry
> need an external registrar at all?
> 
> 
> 
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