RE: [council] FW: ICANN News Alert -- AGP Deletes Down by 84%

Chuck, I consider you one of the wisest voices around ICANN, even though we occasionally disagree. I do not need to belabor this point, and appreciate your and Craig’s attention to the concern. It is frustrating to many of us who worked hard for over a year to develop this Consensus Policy recommendation, and obtain a Supermajority vote of Council. Here is the text of the GNSO motion: http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-gnso-17apr08.shtml. We still see it unimplemented by Verisign seven months later, for no apparent reason, and damage still occurring from the precise practice we tried to stop.

Thanks,

Mike

From: Gomes, Chuck [mailto:cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 9:43 AM
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Subject: RE: [council] FW: ICANN News Alert -- AGP Deletes Down by 84%

Mike,

Forgiving for being dense, but I was asking an honest question. To what motion are you referring? What motion do think VeriSign has ignored? I suppose I can go back to April and check it out when I get time if you don't want to clarify.

Chuck

From: Mike Rodenbaugh [mailto:icann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:21 AM
To: Gomes, Chuck; icann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 'BC List'; 'GNSO Council'; agp-limits-policy@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [council] FW: ICANN News Alert -- AGP Deletes Down by 84%

Chuck, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised to hear you ask this question! Since it sure seems Verisign has ignored the Council resolution addressing domain tasting, passed by Council in April by supermajority (including your vote from the RyC) and by the Board in June.

-Mike

From: Gomes, Chuck [mailto:cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:37 PM
To: icann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; BC List; GNSO Council; agp-limits-policy@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [council] FW: ICANN News Alert -- AGP Deletes Down by 84%

What GNSO resolution are you talking about Mike.

Chuck

From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Rodenbaugh
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:19 PM
To: BC List; GNSO Council; agp-limits-policy@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [council] FW: ICANN News Alert -- AGP Deletes Down by 84%

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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