Re: [wg-review] [IDNO] OR [IDNH] addendum

[Michael Sondow <msondow@iciiu.org>]

Eric Dierker wrote:
> 
> Perhaps you can enlighten me, what is the benefit of being accredited by ICANN?
> Or put another way, what is the downside of not being accredited by ICANN?

An accredited registrar has a contractual right to sell (or rent, or
whatever) domain names and have them put into the NSI root. The
accredited registrars interact, in the registration process, with
NSI by means of a program that was developed a year ago in a
"testbed" of the original five registrars (actually there were
around a hundred, because CORE, chosen as one of the original
testbed "registrars", is actually an association comprising many
registrars).

Financially, the accredited registrars get domain names for $9 each
from NSI.

The disadvantage to not being accredited is that you are not a
registrar. NSI will not deal with you. You have no shared program
with them. And you must pay the same $35/name that a registrant pays
NSI if he or she gets their domain name from NSI.

Got it?

M.S.
ICIIU.ORG
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