[To: council[at]gnso.icann.org; liaison6c[at]gnso.icann.org] [To: ga[at]gnso.icann.org; announce[at]gnso.icann.org] [To: regional-liaisons[at]icann.org] http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-13feb09-en.htm Public Comment: Single and Two-Character .BIZ Domains 13 February 2009 ICANN is today opening a public comment forum on a proposed amendment from NeuStar to Appendix 6 and 7 of the .BIZ Registry Agreement. On 31 October 2008, ICANN posted for public information a request submitted by NeuStar through the Registry Services Evaluation Process for a phased allocation process for single and two-character names in .BIZ. The NeuStar proposal is available at http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/neustar-request-2008010-31oct08.pdf [PDF, 100K]. As provided for by existing consensus policy (http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/rsep.html), ICANN has undertaken a preliminary determination to determine whether the proposal might raise significant security or stability, or competition issues. ICANN's determination is that the proposal did not raise such issues in .BIZ. [Note that, from 13 June to 13 July 2008, ICANN conducted a public comment forum on a proposed single-character second-level domain names allocation framework (http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/proposed-scsld-allocation-framework-...), which supported the allocation single-character second-level domain names in existing registries and reviewed various allocation methods.] The proposal requires an amendment the .BIZ List of Reserved TLD Strings (Appendix 6) and a description of the phased allocation program is proposed to be inserted at the 7.2 of Appendix 7. A copy of the proposed amendment is available here [PDF, 24K]. Comments on the proposed amendment submitted to biz-alloc-amendment at icann.org will be considered until 15 Mar 2009 23:59 UTC. Comments may be viewed at http://forum.icann.org/lists/biz-alloc-amendment/. All documentation related to the NeuStar proposal is available at http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/#2008010 Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org