Below is the ‘news alert’ from
ICANN about the effect of the budget measure designed to mitigate commercial domain
tasting, by imposing the .20 ICANN fee on every domain deleted over the
threshold of 10% of any registrar’s net adds in a month. There has
definitely been a positive impact, with AGP deletes down 84% overall.
Unfortunately, ICANN does not mention that
one registrar – NameKing -- accounted for nearly 40% of the .com AGP
deletes in July (956,000, vs. 12,000 adds). Another family of registrars
– eNom – accounted for approximately 25% of them (559,000 vs.
203,000 adds).
See Verisign registry report here: http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/monthly-reports/com-net/verisign-200807.pdf
It is particularly glaring that just two
registrars accounted for 1.5 million AGP deletes in .com in one month,
apparently disregarding the will of the Council and ICANN Board,
entirely. Neither ICANN nor Verisign have mentioned why it is taking so
long for Verisign to implement the GNSO Council resolution that might mitigate
the NameKing and eNom domain tasting business model, as was clearly intended by
a supermajority of Council and the ICANN Board. Fwiw, many in the
Business Constituency are interested to have some indication of when the
resolution will be implemented, and why it has not been implemented to
date.
Thanks,
Mike Rodenbaugh
From: ICANN News Alert
[mailto:communications@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008
3:49 PM
To: icann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: ICANN News Alert -- AGP
Deletes Down by 84%
News
Alert
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-13nov08-en.htm
AGP Deletes Down by 84%
13 November 2008
In
June 2008, the ICANN Board approved the FY09 Budget that contained a provision
on AGP deletes. The provision is that domain names deleted during the AGP will
be included as transactions if they exceed the maximum of (i) 10% of that
registrar's net new registrations in that month, or (ii) fifty (50) domain
names, whichever is greater. Therefore the per-transaction fee, currently
US$0.20, will be assessed on all AGP deletes that exceed the defined threshold.
This
provision was adopted as a short-term solution to address excessive AGP delete
activity until the consensus policy on domain tasting, now referred to as the AGP
Limits Policy, is implemented. The Policy and draft implementation plan were
posted for public comment on 20 October 2008 (see, http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-20oct08-en.htm)
and are expected to be announced for implementation in early December.
Following
implementation of the Board approved budget provision that affects the
"domain tasting fee," names added and subsequently deleted during the
five-day AGP declined from approximately 17.6M in June 2008 to 2.8M in July
2008. Of the 2.8M AGP deletes in July, approximately 2.6M were subject to the
registrar-level transaction fee defined by the provision. Therefore, it is
expected that the quantity of AGP deletes will continue to decline until few or
none are subject to the transaction fee.
ICANN
will continue to provide updates to the community on AGP delete activity
following the three-month confidentiality period for gTLD monthly reports.
These reports may be viewed at http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/monthly-reports/.
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