Begin forwarded message: > From: "[log in to unmask]" > <[log in to unmask]> > Date: February 28, 2008 10:51:13 AM PST > To: "'Council GNSO'" <[log in to unmask]> > 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] > [To: ga[at]gnso.icann.org; announce[at]gnso.icann.org] > [To: regional-liaisons[at]icann.org] > > 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 > [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask] 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 IP JUSTICE Robin Gross, Executive Director 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451 w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: [log in to unmask]