as a very very very small domain name holder -- I used to hold 3, and now, due to co organizing the IGF USA, I have had to up my portfolio by 6 more names for defensive purposes for a very worthwhile voluntary effort, but it has 'quadrupled' the names I need to care about, and I would indeed care if one of them expired and I didn't have a way to 'salvage' it. So, I do appreciate the work of the BC members on this. I suspect that businesses with large portfoiios of defensive registrations do as well. Marilyn
CC: bc-gnso@icann.org From: mike@haven2.com To: michael@palage.com Subject: Re: [bc-gnso] PEDNAR (post expiration domain name recovery) PDP needs a constituency statement from us Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:03:10 -0500
just a process update, we're just wrapping up the PEDNAR call right now and it looks like only 2 constituencies got statements in on time. so we all have a 2-week "dog ate the homework" extension.
Berry Cobb is pulling together a call among the BC members on the PEDNAR working group (Berry, Mike, Phil Corwin, me) to hammer on this and figure out a process to get something by you for review. Palage is off to a great start with this post.
mikey
On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Michael D. Palage wrote:
Philip/Mike R,
In the interest of preserving the BC position on this topic, I can also report that the registry constituency will be submitting a comment after the close of the formal comment period. Therefore, if we did submit a late response we would not be alone.
I would like to submit the following statement for consideration to the group, friendly amendments welcomed.
While the Business Constituency supports competition and innovation within the marketplace, these principles should not compromise the rights of registrants with regard to open, transparent and predicable practices concerning expiring domain names. The Business Constituency would like to thank ICANN staff for their support of the PEDNR Working Group to date. Two staff members that have provided critical support to date are Marika Konings, who will be overseeing a registrar survey to provide a more accurate picture of the expiring domain name market and William McKelligott, an Auditor from the ICANN Contractual Compliance Team, for his work in accessing registrar compliance with regard to the Expired Domain Deletion Policy (EDDP).
While the BC will await these survey results and other additional fact finding prior to formulating a more detailed position statement, there is one important point that the BC would like to make at this time in connection with the accuracy of Whois data. The BC has long advocated in support of increased accuracy of whois data. The preliminary work of the Work Group appears to indicate that registrar practices in connection with the transfer of domain names post expiration may result in inaccurate whois data that may materially impact a trademark owners right to enforce their rights through the UDRP.
The BC apologizes for the untimely submission of this comment, but its members and leadership look forward to meaningfully participating in the upcoming forum at the ICANN annual meeting in Seoul.
Best regards,
Michael
-----Original Message----- From: owner-bc-gnso@icann.org [mailto:owner-bc-gnso@icann.org] On Behalf Of Philip Sheppard Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 8:41 AM To: 'BC gnso' Subject: RE: [bc-gnso] PEDNAR (post expiration domain name recovery) PDP needs a constituency statement from us
Michael, you are I agree. I believe it IS an issue but regret the inaction to date by other BC members.
Why could you not have spent the time writing your last e-mail by drafting a BC position?
Philip
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