Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:29:34 -0500
From: "Neuman, Jeff" <Jeff.Neuman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [At-Large] NeuStar and Afilias address domain tasting
To: Franck Martin <franck.martin@xxxxxxxxx>,
Alan Greenberg <alan.greenberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: At-Large Worldwide <alac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
If I may jump in:
We have found that non-tasting registrars have
what we believe are legitimate deletes of up to
8 or 9% of their adds per month. These are for
chargebacks, fraud, mistakes, etc. These mostly
occur in registrars with reseller model. Again,
these are not domain name tasting registrars or
resellers. Unfortunately due to
confidentiality reasons we cannot disclose who
they are. So, we came up with 10% to provide a little cover.
Also, please note that for a domain name taster,
deleting up to 10% is not economical at all and
will eliminate their practice. Most tasters
delete in excess of 95% or more of the names
they add. That is the only way to make any money at it.
Would be happy to address further.
Hope that helps.
Jeffrey J. Neuman, Esq.
Sr. Director, Law, Advanced Services &
Business Development
NeuStar, Inc.
e-mail: <mailto:Jeff.Neuman@xxxxxxxxxx>Jeff.Neuman@xxxxxxxxxx
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From: alac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:alac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Franck Martin
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 6:04 PM
To: Alan Greenberg
Cc: At-Large Worldwide
Subject: Re: [At-Large] NeuStar and Afilias address domain tasting
Out of curiosity, this e-mail states 50 per
month or 10% of that registrar. but what is the current rate?
On 06/02/2008, Alan Greenberg
<<mailto:alan.greenberg@xxxxxxxxx>alan.greenberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am delighted to report that NeuStar has
submitted a request to ICANN to allow them to
modify the Add Grace Period by reducing the
number of deletes that a registrar can do for
free on its .biz domain. The introduction to the request reads as follows:
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED SERVICE:
Currently there are no limitations on the number
of deletions that a registrar can process during
the five-day AGP. 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?s net new monthly domain name
registrations, whichever is greater. There would
be no change to the current registry
interface. A registrar would be permitted to
delete as many names as it wished during the
five-day AGP, receiving credit throughout the
month. However, at the end of the NeuStar's
normal monthly billing cycle the Registrar?s
account would be debited for the full value of
the domain name registrations that exceeded the
month's set threshold. It is expected that
Afilias will be submitting a similar request for .info.
The process to get this done started in a small
work-group at the San Juan ICANN meeting.
Although we had hoped that it would happen much
sooner, it is great that it has now been done
and can impact the discussions in Delhi.
The full text of the request can be found
attached to
<http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04586.html>http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04586.html
.
Alan
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