Re: [registrars] Registry certification

[Rob Hall <rob@momentous.ca>]

I actually had a chat with ICANN staff about this last November.

Their opinion at that time was no, there would be no performance bond 
issues, as anything like that would have had to been contained in the 
proposals the new registries made, and none of them did.

Their opinion at the time was that ALL registrars that were ICANN 
accredited would be able to access these new domains.  Although, I can see 
that we may have to enter into a contract with the registries.  However, as 
no issues such as the performance bond or software license was mentioned in 
the bids, the new registries should not be allowed to implement them now.

On that note, I would support contacting NSI and asking for them to remove 
the requirement for software license and the performance bond (as Roger C. 
alluded to in the teleconference).

Rob.


At 08:23 AM 3/23/2001 -0800, Rick H Wesson wrote:

>Ross,
>
> > In order to become accredited/operational under CNO, you must fulfill both
> > the terms of the ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement as well as the
> > Verisign Registrar License and Agreement.
> >
> > My understanding is that the new TLDs will be operated under the same
> > terms...
>
>Could you state if registrars will be required to put up a 100K
>preformance bond with the nwe gTLD registries?
>
>thanks,
>
>-rick



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