RE: [registrars] Registry certification

["Antony Van Couvering" <avc@nameengine.com>]

Informal discussions with people in the know about .INFO led me to
believe there would be no fee or performance bond.  A .BIZ person said
there would be no license fee, and on the performance bond issue I got
words about how they wouldn't want to discourage anyone from registering
- in other words, maybe something.

Antony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Hall [mailto:rob@momentous.ca]
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 12:44 PM
> To: Rick H Wesson
> Cc: registrars@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [registrars] Registry certification
> 
> 
> 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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