[ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- .PRO Cross-Ownership Removal Request

At-Large Staff staff at atlarge.icann.org
Sat Jul 27 11:27:47 UTC 2013


ICANN News Alert 
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News Alert
http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-26jul13-en.htm

.PRO Cross-Ownership Removal Request
26 July 2013

 

Forum Announcement: Comment Period Opens on Date: 26 July 2013
Categories/Tags: Contracted Party Agreements
Purpose (Brief): Afilias Limited requests the removal of the cross-ownership
restrictions reflected on the .PRO Registry Agreement dated 22 April 2010.
See: http://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/registries/pro This request is
submitted according to the "Process for Handling Requests for Removal of
Cross-Ownership Restrictions on Operators of Existing gTLDs" adopted by the
Board on 18 October 2012. See:
http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registries/removal-cross-ownership.
According to the approved process, in order to lift cross-ownership
restrictions, existing gTLD registry operators could either request an
amendment to their existing Registry Agreement to remove the cross-ownership
restrictions or request to transition to the new form of Registry Agreement
for new gTLDs. Any proposed material amendments to gTLD registry agreements
would be subject to public comment prior to ICANN approval. The proposed
Afilias Limited amendment to can be found here
<http://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/registries/pro/proposed-pro-amendm
ent-26jul13-en.pdf>  [PDF, 48 KB]. The redlined agreement can be downloaded
here 
<http://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/registries/pro/proposed-pro-agreem
ent-redline-26jul13-en.pdf>  [PDF, 94 KB].
Public Comment Box Link:
http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/pro-xo-removal-26jul13-en.htm
<http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/pro-xo-removal-26jul13-en.htm>
 







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