Re: [alac] Board Meeting

[Wendy Seltzer <wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:17 PM 10/15/2006, John L wrote:
> > >        * 
> > > <http://www.icann.org/minutes/secretarys-notice-27sep06.htm>Board 
> > > Inquiry Responses
> > >        * 
> > > <http://www.icann.org/announcements/afilias-to-icann.pdf>Afilias Response
> > >        * 
> > > <http://www.icann.org/announcements/pir-to-icann-10oct06.pdf>PIR's Response
> > >        * 
> > > <http://www.icann.org/announcements/neuStar-to-icann-10oct06.pdf>Neulevel 
> > > Response
> >
> > Has anyone reviewed the registries responses to see whether they 
> > address the concerns ALAC raised?
> > I like PIR's response, which suggests adding explicit uniform 
> > pricing language to the contract (and I think PIR's language is 
> > better than Neustar's, though I haven't reviewed them in depth).
>
> The suggested language in all three letters appears to be identical. 
> Gosh, I wonder how that happened.  It seems OK to me.

Neustar's and Afilias's are nearly identical.  I thought PIR's was 
broader, applying to all "new and renewal" registrations, as opposed 
to Neustar and Afilias's "active Registered Name/ active .INFO domain."

I'd still rather see actual price structures as part of the contract.

PIR.
(a) Prices for Registry Services. The same price to ICANN-accredited registrars
for new and renewal domain name registrations and for transferring a domain
name registration from one ICANN-accredited registrar to another, shall be
charged to all registrars with respect to each annual increment of a 
new or renewal
domain name registration, and for transferring a domain name registration from
one ICANN-accredited registrar to another, provided, however, that:
(i) volume discounts, marketing support, and incentive programs may be made if
the same opportunities to qualify for those discounts, marketing support, and
incentive programs are available to all ICANN-accredited registrars; and
ii) if ICANN approves a new Registry Service approved through the process set
forth above (Registry Service Process), or to the extent a variable 
pricing model
for active Registered Names has been implemented in any other new or existing
gTLD, then different prices for such registrations may be charged.


Neustar.
Registry Operator shall not impose any variable pricing model on any 
active Registered
Name. This restriction shall not apply: (i) to any uniformly applied 
fee increases imposed
on all Registered Name Holders; (ii) to any active Registered Name 
that was initially
registered pursuant to a marketing program employed by Registry 
Operator; (iii) to any
active Registered Name registered through any new Registry Service 
approved through
the process set forth in Section __ above (Registry Service Process) 
or (iv) to the extent a
variable pricing model for active Registered Names has been 
implemented in any other
new or existing gTLD.



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Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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