[registrars] Registry certification

[Michael Forrester <michael.forrester@totalwebsolutions.com>]

All,

I would be interested to hear comments regarding the issue of registrar
certification for the registration of the new gTLD's.  It appears that it is
no longer acceptable to be simply ICANN accredited, rather we must now seek
separate registry certification before we can consider registrations in the
new gTLD's.  There are a couple of points which our company feel are
important to address here:

1.  If we are to seek certification from the new registries for the right to
register the new gTLD's would we have to provide sensitive company
information which could be used by potential competitors against us?

2.  Accreditation to register gTLD's comes from an agreement between ICANN
and the registrars, in the case of the new gTLD's certification could be
dependent upon an agreement between a registry and a registrar.  A new
registry could arbitrarily decline a registrars bid for certification for
whatever reason.

Have any registrars got any thoughts on this issue?     

Kind regards,

Mike Forrester
Domain Name Manager. 
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