ICANN Opens Comment Period on PIR's Proposal

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Proposal includes a new registry service to implement an excess delete fee on certain .ORG domain names deleted during the 5-day add-grace period.

ICANN, yesterday announced an open comment period on Public Interest Registry's excess delete fee proposal.

On 22 November 2006, ICANN's Board of Directors approved Resolution 06.84 to implement the Public Interest Registry's proposed new registry service to implement an excess delete fee on certain, excess, .ORG domain names deleted during the 5-day add-grace period by a 10-0 vote. Specifically the new service approved by the Board provides that PIR may charge a registrar an excess delete fee of 5 cents on every domain name deleted during the 5-day add-grace period when the number of deletions is in excess of 90% of the total number of initial registrations made by a registrar in a 30-day period.

The resolution authorized the President and General Counsel to enter into an amendment of the .ORG Re -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --