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Transaction fee reduction

Since at least one registrar has announced a refund, of sorts, to its customers to account for ICANN’s retroactive reduction in transaction fees (from 25 cents to 22 cents), we have received a handful of questions from registrars and individuals about how the fee reduction will work.
Here are the answers to the questions we’ve received […]

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Revised data escrow specs

Following some helpful discussions with the registrar data escrow (RDE) working group, the RDE specs have been revised and are attached here.

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what’s wrong with resellers?

At the Lisbon ICANN meeting, we saw the beginnings of a good community discussion about improving the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) in light of what we’ve learned from the problems exposed by the RegisterFly situation. Among several issues raised was the very evident friction between RegisterFly (as a reseller for eNom) and eNom, and […]

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Registrar Data Escrow draft specifications

Paragraph 3.6 of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) obligates all ICANN-accredited registrars to submit to ICANN or, at the registrar’s election and expense, to a reputable escrow agent, a copy of the electronic database maintained by the registrar in accordance with paragraph 3.4.1 of the RAA on a schedule, under the terms, and in the […]

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Transfer-Questions gets a ticketing system

Having found myself suddenly buried under hundreds of emails last Sunday, I was finally able to convince the right people that the transfer-questions@icann.org team needed a ticketing system. (And, for that matter, the t-q “team” also needed more than one team member!)

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Registerfly Update

I’ve received a number of emails from registrars asking how and when their customers will be able to transfer names out of Registerfly. Here’s the latest information.

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