[NA-Discuss] status of .aero

[Dharma Dailey]

I asked in the public forum, "What are the rights of registrants if a  
registry goes belly up?"- A much more generic form of your question-  
certainly didn't know all the details that you just mentioned.  The  
answer that I got was very generic as well-- I would summarize  about  
10 minutes of several panelists talking as "We're working on it."
-Dharma Dailey.


On Jun 30, 2007, at 12:31 PM, John L wrote:

> Did anyone ever have a chance to ask this question?
>
> During the meeting, I saw on the ICANN web site that Ed Hasbrouck  
> goaded
> the ICANN staff into revealing two hitherto secret amendments giving
> six-month extensions of the existing .aero agreement, signed on  
> behalf of
> ICANN by Kurt Pritz.
>
> There is nothing the board minutes related to .aero since a 2006  
> motion
> that directs the staff to negotiate a new agreement.  I believe  
> that all
> previous registry agreements and amendments have been subject to board
> vote, so I wish I had a chance to ask how come staff now gets to amend
> this agreement without telling anyone including, apparently, the  
> board.
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet  
> for Dummies",
> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex- 
> Mayor
> "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
>
>> If someone has a chance at the public forum, a registrant in .AERO  
>> (me)
>> would like to know the status of the domain.  The sponsorship  
>> agreement
>> expired in 2006, so at this point it's operating without any  
>> contractual
>> authority.
>>
>> Of the three sTLDs that came up for renewal last year, .MUSEUM got  
>> a six
>> month time extension in March, and .COOP is supposed to be  
>> reapproved this
>> week, but there's been no action on .AERO since June of 2006, a  
>> year ago,
>> when the staff was supposed to negotiate a new agreement.
>
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