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From: "Neuman, Jeff" <Jeff.Neuman@neustar.us> Date: 5 February 2008 06:13:15 GMT+01:00 To: "Avri Doria" <avri@acm.org> Subject: FW: Domain Tasting Funnel Request by NeuStar

Avri,

This may be of some interest to the council.

NeuStar just submitted the following funnel request to ICANN regarding modification of the Add-Grace Period. We believe that Afilias will submit a substantially similar proposal for .info in the next day or so and we have worked closely with them on this proposal. We believe that this will effectively end domain name tasting in .biz and .info.

Here is the opening paragraph:

Technical Description of the Proposed Service: Currently there are no limitations on the number of deletions that a registrar can process during the five-day AGP. The proposed service would limit the number of AGP deletions where a registrar could receive a full registration fee credit. This limit would be determined each month, with a maximum of 50 per month or 10% of that registrar’s net new monthly domain name registrations, whichever is greater. There would be no change to the current registry interface. A registrar would be permitted to delete as many names as it wished during the five- day AGP, receiving credit throughout the month. However, at the end of the NeuStar’s normal monthly billing cycle the Registrar’s account would be debited for the full value of the domain name registrations that exceeded the month’s set threshold.

Please let me know if you have any questions and feel free to post.

Jeffrey J. Neuman, Esq. Sr. Director, Law, Advanced Services & Business Development NeuStar, Inc. e-mail: Jeff.Neuman@Neustar.us