Extension of Comment Period on Telnic Proposal

7 June 2007

On 11 May 2007, ICANN opened a public comment period on a proposal from Telnic Ltd. to amend the terms in the .TEL Registry Agreement concerning the public display of Whois information, MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.icann.org" claiming to be wwwicann.org/announcements/announcement-11may07.htm. In accordance with requests, ICANN is extending the public comment period through 28 June 2007.

A copy of the proposed amendment is available at http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/tel/tel-amendment-30may07.pdf [PDF, 25K] and provides for changes to Appendix 1, Appendix 5 and Appendix S, Part VI of the .TEL Registry Agreement. ICANN has added a comparison document showing the proposed changes to the registry agreement appendices. ICANN has also created a dedicated comment forum on the Telnic proposal. Comments may be submitted to telnic-whois-proposal@icann.org until 28 June 2007 23:59 UTC and may be viewed at http://forum.icann.org/lists/telnic-whois-proposal/. The Registry Services Evaluation Policy is posted at MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.icann.org" claiming to be http://www.icannorg/registries/rsep/rsep.html. All documentation regarding this proposed service and corresponding comment forum has been previously posted as part of the procedure at http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/#2007004.

Patrick L. Jones

Registry Liaison Manager

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330

Marina del Rey, CA 90292

Tel: +1 310 301 3861

Fax: +1 310 823 8649

patrick.jones@icann.org