[At-Large] Fwd: ICANN News Alert -- Proposal for a Specification 13 to the ICANN Registry Agreement to Contractually Reflect Certain Limited Aspects of ".Brand" New gTLDs

[Carlton Samuels]

FYI.   This specification seems to recognize brand TLDs might make special
registrarial arrangements - as in use of 'trusted registrars' or bypass the
current market situation totally, not just ICANN-accredited ones - so long
as it remains defined as such.

-Carlton

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[image: ICANN] <http://www.icann.org/> News Alert

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-06dec13-en.htm
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Proposal for a Specification 13 to the ICANN Registry Agreement to
Contractually Reflect Certain Limited Aspects of ".Brand" New gTLDs

6 December 2013

ICANN is posting today for public
comment<http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/spec13-06dec13-en.htm>a
proposal requested by the Brand Registry Group to incorporate a new
Specification 13 to the new gTLD Registry Agreement, which would be
available to a Registry Operator that operates a TLD that ICANN determines
qualifies as a ".Brand TLD".

The proposed draft of Specification
13<http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/base-agreement-spec-13-proposed-06dec13-en.pdf>[PDF,
80 KB] and the concepts reflected therein have not been approved by
the New gTLD Program Committee of ICANN’s Board of Directors. ICANN is
seeking public comment on all aspects of the proposal.

ICANN is also posting with the proposed draft of Specification 13 a position
statement<http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/brand-spec-13-statement-06dec13-en.pdf>[PDF,
83 KB] of the Brand Registry Group in support of the proposed draft.