[registrars] FW: [nc-transfer] Deletions Proposal

["Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@tucows.com>]

Registrars,

This proposal is under discussion in the Transfers WG. It deals with
policies and process surrounding how and when domain names are deleted.
I would like to endorse this proposal, but first I require feedback from
the constituency. Comments on this proposal will be open through this
coming Sunday night, at which point I will review any/all comments and
synthesize a constituency response to the proposal.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.



                       -rwr




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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nc-transfer@dnso.org [mailto:owner-nc-transfer@dnso.org] On
Behalf Of Safran, David
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 9:12 AM
To: 'Cade,Marilyn S - LGA'; Transfer TF (E-mail)
Cc: ga@dnso.org; 'Steve Metalitz'; IPC Leadership
Subject: RE: [nc-transfer] Deletions Proposal


Based on yesterday's TTF telephone conferences and subsequent
consultation with Marilyn Cade, the following draft deletions proposal
is presented for
consideration:


		--- DRAFT PROPOSAL ---

		The Transfer Task Force having determined that: 

		1) There is no uniform practice from
registrar-to-registrar as to when an expired domain is turned off or
deleted, and that this leads to registrant confusion at best, and could
contribute to accidental or inadvertant loss of a registered name, and
that this diversity of procedures may also affect other related issues.

		2)  That a significant number of domain names are being
unintentionally lost due to erroneous expirations and deletions that
were not intended to occur by the domain name owner, e.g., due to errors
by their ISP or other intermediary registration processor, or simple
failure to receive adequate notice,or even simple misunderstanding.

		3)  That, on the one hand, immediate returning of an
established domain name to use by a new owner in many instances will
encourage adoption of deleted, established domain names by those seeking
to trade on the established good will of the prior domain name
registrant, e.g., to divert traffic intended for the prior user to a
unrelated site of the new owner, and that, in these case, the public can
be disadvantaged and/or harmed when returning to a previously frequented
web site and either being diverted to a personally offensive site or
being misled  into transacting business with the new domain owner
believing that they are transacting business with the prior domain name
owner.

		Therefore, it is the Task Force's conclusion that,for
these reasons and other reasons identified elsewhere, it is desirable
and beneficial to the public for a uniform deletions policy to be
established, which would apply to all Registrars, by which domain names
would be "deleted" after a set number of days with a requirement that
they go dark at the end of a set period of time from expiration, the
domain name owner being permitted to recover the domain name up until
expiration of this second set period of time from the date on which the
domain goes dark (redemption grace period), with the domain name being
deleted at the end of the redemption grace period and returned to the
registry pool.

		Furthermore, it is also the Task Force's conclusion that
in all instances where a domain name has been deleted, whether due to
expiration or otherwise, that the deleted domain name not be reissued
until the end of a set cooling off period of time after the domain name
has been deleted, in order to provide an opportunity for the domain name
to be returned to the owner in the case of an erroneous deletion at a
point in time when the domain name should not have been deleted, and to
afford a period of time for the public to disassociate the domain name
from its prior owner. 

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David S. Safran
Nixon Peabody LLP 
8180 Greensboro Drive
Suite 800
McLean, VA 22102
Office:  703.770.9315
Fax:  703.770.9400
dsafran@nixonpeabody.com 

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