Abuot IDN TLD(from beijingidc.com)

[北京IDC网 <aj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear ICANN and the community,

We are Chinese registrar, Beijing IDC.com (known as Bejing XingYuan XInDongLi 
Technology Co.,Ltd.).We would like to make comments relating the selection of 
IDN registrars on GNSO New gTLD final report as follow.

According to the recommendation No.19, it indicates that the new TLD registry 
is expected to exclusively employ ICANN accredited registrars. Well, we see 
this differently, for we believe that user’s experience of certain IDN domain 
name system is essentially determined by the registrar’s capability of serving 
the community that dominates. The model of only using ICANN accredited 
registrars may not be effective on new TLDs’operation and development that 
involves IDN strings. 

IDN TLD is obviously known to serve a specific community or territory, one of 
the most significant characteristics is the concept of territory-oriented. 
There is undoubted factor that local registrars always possess irreplaceable 
competitive advantages in language sensitivity, cultural familiarity, and best 
understanding of local users’ needs in large. However, the restriction policy 
stated in the report holds back the registrars to serve the customers in making 
the selection criteria vitally associated with an ICANN accreditation 
certificate. It truly hurts the popularization of the IDNs in the long run. 
Hence, we would strongly recommend ICANN shall establish a set of comprehensive 
criteria and allow the registry accrediting more local registrars in 
compliances with these criteria. Again, we hereby propose that the operation 
policy of new IDN TLD should be more local-oriented, in which the registrar 
selection criteria reform reflects a lot on how ICANN works with its impartial 
principle. 

We are looking forwards to seeing the feedback. 

Thank you very much.

All the best
BeijingIDC.com