[At-Large] ICANN Announcement on Domain Tasting

[Alan Greenberg]

Please see the announcement and report 
(<http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-12aug09-en.htm>http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-12aug09-en.htm) 
ICANN posted today about the impact of the AGP Budget Provision and 
the AGP Limits Policy on Domain Tasting.

In short, the changes are dramatic. There were 17,668750 AGP deletes 
in June 2008. Following the ICANN budget levy on excessive deletes, 
the number decreased to 2,785,605. With the implementation of the AGP 
limit policy in April 2009, the total number of AGP deletes was 
58,218, an overall decrease of 99.7%.

Put another way, in June 2008, for .COM, there were 2,122,794 net new 
domains added, and an additional 15,738,292 domain names added and 
then AGP-deleted for an AGP delete rate of 741%

In April 2009, there were 2,084,868 net new domains added, and an 
additional 37,519 domain names added and then AGP-deleted for an AGP 
delete rate of under 2%.

Under the policy, an AGP-delete rate of 10% is allowed without 
financial penalty, per registrar, to allow for exceptional 
conditions. It was expected that few registrars would exceed this 10% 
and in fact in April only 22 registrars exceeded 10%, and there were 
only 432 excessive AGP-deletes.

As the organization that started this entire policy process, At-Large 
and ALAC can be proud of the results.

Alan