Might I ask that Danny and others who have been monitoring the registryfly discussion spaces to post a copy of the report there. Many of those affected by the RegistryFly failure are likely to be keen to review the report and perhaps comment.
FYI, this is about a failure of a registry, not a registrar. The issues are somewhat different, because registries are less fungible than registrars. With registrars, the response is clearly a less chaotic version of what happened with Registerfly, give the escrowed data to another registrar. With a dead registry, the options range from shutting down the domain immediately to finding a new sponsor to having ICANN run it as a trustee. I presume the reason this has come up is the near failure of Tralliance, the sponsor for the .travel domain. They came within a few days of running our of money before the company's president threw in enough to keep them going for the time being. My blog at http://weblog.johnlevine.com has more info on .travel.
Yesterday we posted the registry failure report, http:// www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-4-01jun07.htm. Can you forward a copy to the ALAC list and encourage everyone to read the report? I am very interested in their feedback. This report has been in development since Sao Paulo, and will be discussed in San Juan as part of a public forum on protections for registrants. Comments can be sent to registry-failure-report@icann.org, viewed athttp://forum.icann.org/lists/registry-failure-report/. As always, email can also be sent to me directly. I have also posted the report on the ICANN blog. An html version should be up by Monday.
R's, John