[At-Large] GNSO action on Domain Tasting

[Veronica Cretu]

Thanks for the news! Congratulations and well-done, Alan!

A great weekend ahead for everyone,
Veronica


-----Original Message-----

From: Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg at mcgill.ca>

To: At-Large <alac at atlarge-lists.icann.org>

Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:58:38 -0400

Subject: [At-Large] GNSO action on Domain Tasting




I am pleased to report that at its meeting last Thursday, the GNSO 

passed a motion that will eliminate the massive usage of the Add 

Grace Period (AGP) that has enabled domain tasting. The motion is 

appended below. It was passed with a supermajority (greater than 

2/3), so the Board must adopt it as a Consensus Policy unless a 

supermajority of the Board oppose it (highly unlikely).



It was supported by all constituencies except 2 of the 3 Registrar 

members. The Registrar Constituency had proposed an alternative 

motion wherein the Board budget measure of charging the $0.20 for all 

new domains (including those deleted under the AGP) should be 

implemented first, and the original motion (the one that passed) only 

apply if the budget action proved unsuccessful.



Alan



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Whereas, the GNSO Council has discussed the Issues Report on Domain 

Tasting and the Final Outcomes Report of the ad hoc group on Domain Tasting;



Whereas, the GNSO Council resolved on 31 October 2007 to launch a PDP 

on Domain Tasting;



Whereas, the GNSO Council authorized on 17 January 2008 the formation 

of a small design team to develop a plan for the deliberations on the 

Domain Tasting PDP (the "Design Team"), the principal volunteers to 

which had been members of the Ad Hoc Group on Domain Tasting and were 

well-informed of both the Final Outcomes Report of the Ad Hoc Group 

on Domain Tasting and the GNSO Initial Report on Domain Tasting 

(collectively with the Issues Report, the "Reports on Domain Tasting");



Whereas, the GNSO Council has received the Draft Final Report on 

Domain Tasting;



Whereas, PIR, the .org registry operator, has amended its Registry 

Agreement to charge an Excess Deletion Fee; and both NeuStar, the 

.biz registry operator, and Afilias, the .info registry operator, are 

seeking amendments to their respective Registry Agreements to modify 

the existing AGP;



The GNSO Council recommends to the ICANN Board of Directors that:



1. The applicability of the Add Grace Period shall be restricted for 

any gTLD which has implemented an AGP ("Applicable gTLD Operator").

Specifically, for each Applicable gTLD Operator:



a. During any given month, an Applicable gTLD Operator may not offer 

any refund to a registrar for any domain names deleted during the AGP 

that exceed (i) 10% of that registrar's net new registrations in that 

month (defined as total new registrations less domains deleted during AGP), 
or

(ii) fifty (50) domain names, whichever is greater.



b. A Registrar may seek an exemption from the application of such 

restriction in a specific month, upon the documented showing of 

extraordinary circumstances. For any Registrar requesting such an 

exemption, the Registrar must confirm in writing to the Registry 

Operator how, at the time the names were deleted, these extraordinary 

circumstances were not known, reasonably could not have been known, 

and were outside of the Registrar's control. Acceptance of any 

exemption will be at the sole reasonable discretion of the Registry 

Operator, however "extraordinary circumstances" which reoccur 

regularly will not be deemed extraordinary.



c. In addition to all other reporting requirements to ICANN, each 

Applicable gTLD Operator shall identify each Registrar that has 

sought an exemption, along with a brief descriptive identification of 

the type of extraordinary circumstance and the action (if any) that 

was taken by the Applicable gTLD Operator.



2. Implementation and execution of these recommendations shall be 

monitored by the GNSO. Specifically;



a. ICANN Staff shall analyze and report to the GNSO at six month 

intervals for two years after implementation, until such time as the 

GNSO resolves otherwise, with the goal of determining;



i. How effectively and to what extent the policies have been 

implemented and followed by Registries and Registrars, and



ii. Whether or not modifications to these policies should be 

considered by the GNSO as a result of the experiences gained during 

the implementation and monitoring stages,



b. The purpose of these monitoring and reporting requirements are to 

allow the GNSO to determine when, if ever, these recommendations and 

any ensuing policy require additional clarification or attention 

based on the results of the reports prepared by ICANN Staff.





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