Proposals and Services for Domain Tasting

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Proposals and Services for Domain Tasting

• PIR Excess Deletion Fee
• PIR may charge registrars a fee (the "Excess
  Deletion Fee") for each Registered Name deleted
  within the five day add grace period (as
  specified in Appendix 7, Section 3.1.1 of the
  Registry
• Agreement, "Grace Period Deletes") in the event
  Grace Period Deletes with respect to the relevant
  time period as determined by PIR are in excess of
  ninety percent (90) of the total number of
  initial registrations made by the registrar over
  that time period.
• The Excess Deletion Fee shall be US.05 (five
  cents) per Grace Period
• Delete
• Neustar - Modifications to the Existing Add Grace
  Period
• The proposed service would limit the number of
  AGP deletions where a registrar could receive a
  full registration fee credit. This limit would be
  determined each month, with a maximum of
• 50 per month or 10 of that registrars net new
  monthly domain name registrations,whichever is
  greater

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Proposals and Services for Domain Tasting

• Afilias Modifications to the Existing Add Grace
  Period
• The proposed service would limit the number of
  AGP deletions where a registrar could receive a
  full registration fee credit. This limit would be
  determined each month, with a maximum of 50 per
  month or 10 of that registrar

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Proposals and Services for Domain Tasting GNSO

• To recommend to the Board of Directors that it
  adopt a Consensus Policy to (i) restrict
  applicability of the AGP to a maximum of 50
  deletes per registrar per month or 10 of that
  registrars net new monthly domain name
  registrations, whichever is greater and (ii)
  deem a registrars deletes in excess of this
  maximum to be indicative of, barring exceptional
  circumstances, speculative registrations while
  (iii) not intending to prohibit a registry the
  flexibility of proposing more restrictive excess
  deletion rules.

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Proposals and Services for Domain Tasting GNSO

• 2. To suggest to the Board of Directors that the
  Consensus Policy may be implemented by amending
  Section 3.1.1 to Appendix 7 of each Registry
  Agreement to read as follows
• Delete If a domain is deleted within the Add
  Grace Period, the sponsoring Registrar at the
  time of the deletion is credited for the amount
  of the registration provided, however, at the
  end of the month the Registry shall debit the
  Registrars account for the full value of the
  domain name registrations that exceeded the
  months set threshhold of 50 deletes per month or
  10 of that sponsoring Registrars net new
  monthly domain name registrations, whichever is
  greater (Usual Deletes) and further provided,
  however, that the Registry Operator shall have
  the right to propose more restrictive rules for
  deletes in excess of Usual Deletes during the Add
  Grace Period. Deletes in excess of Usual
  Deletes are, barring exceptional circumstances,
  indicative of speculative registrations. The
  domain is deleted from the Registry database and
  is immediately available for registration by any
  Registrar. See Section 3.2 for a description of
  overlapping grace period exceptions.

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Proposals and Services for Domain Tasting Board
of Directors

• Whereas, the current version of all gTLD registry
  contracts provides for a five-calendar-day Add
  Grace period (AGP) following the initial
  registration of a domain during which a domain
  may be deleted and the sponsoring Registrar will
  be credited for the amount of the registration
  fee
• Whereas, the AGP was originally created to allow
  domain names that had beenaccidentally
  registered to be cancelled
• Whereas, the practice of "domain tasting," by
  which names are registered andthen deleted
  during the AGP, has grown at a very great rate
  since 2005, withtens of millions of domains
  registered and deleted each month
• Whereas, it is apparent that the AGP is being
  used for purposes for which itwas not intended
• Whereas, abuse of the AGP is, in the opinion of
  the majority of respondentswhose statements were
  collected by the GNSO Ad Hoc Group on Domain
  NameTasting (4 October 2007 report), producing
  disadvantages in the form ofconsumer confusion
  and potential fraud that outweigh the benefits of
  theAGP

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Proposals and Services for Domain Tasting Board
of Directors

• Whereas, the GNSO Council on 31 October 2007
  resolved to launch a PDP onDomain Tasting and to
  encourage staff to apply ICANN's fee collections
  tonames registered and subsequently
  de-registered during the AGP
• Whereas, it is the Board's view that abuses of
  the AGP should speedily behalted, while the
  positive benefits of the AGP to consumers should
  beretainedWhereas, the positive benefits of
  the AGP may include, among other things,avoiding
  fraud and monitoring, testing and development of
  registrars'provisioning, production and/or
  merchant gateway systems Whereas, the Board
  believes that the withdrawal of ICANN's waiver of
  ICANN'snon-refundable transaction fee to the
  deletion of names within the AGP
  willsubstantially end the practice of abusing
  the AGP THEREFORE, the Board resolves
  (2008.01.04) to encourage ICANN's budgetary
  process toinclude fees for all domains added,
  including domains added during the AGP,and
  encourages community discussion involved in
  developing the ICANN budget,subject to both
  Board approval and registrar approval of this
  fee.