At 08:44 29/06/2011, William Drake wrote:
>Of interest...

Inaccurate:

"In order to register a domain name, a Registered Name Holder (also 
known as a Registrant) has to use the services of an ICANN-accredited 
Registrar."

This only concerns the US icannTLDs.
jfc



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>>From: ICANN At-Large Staff 
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>>Date: June 28, 2011 5:24:36 PM GMT+02:00
>>To: 
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>>apralo 
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>>Subject: [ALAC-Announce] ICANN Publishes Registrant Rights and 
>>Responsibilities Webpage
>>
>>Dear All,
>>
>>
>>
>>ICANN has published a document that identifies available registrant rights
>>and responsibilities under the 2009 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA),
>>on a webpage that summarizes available registrant rights and
>>responsibilities including those that arise under ICANN Consensus Policies
>>and specifications, as they are incorporated in the RAA:
>><http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/registrant-rights-responsibilities-en.htm>http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/registrant-rights-responsibilities-en.htm
>>.
>>The document, translated into several languages, is available at:
>>http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-27jun11-en.htm.
>>
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn
>>Vernon,
>>
>>ICANN At-Large Staff