Dear all, The Inter-Registrar Transfer PDP has proposed a set of recommendations for “ICANN Approved transfers” and “Change of sponsorship (BTAPPA)”. As the At-Large representant in the working group, I asked for your comments to the proposals. Please refer to the proposed recommendation to you comments. Example: Change of Sponsorship (BTAPPA) RECOMMENDATIONS, Prelim. Rec. #xx.2: [Your comment] The deadline to comment is set to COB Tuesday, 17 October. ICANN Approved Transfer is transfer of the sponsorship of all the registrations sponsored by one Registrar as the result of (i) acquisition of that Registrar or its assets by another Registrar, or (ii) lack of accreditation of that Registrar or lack of its authorization with the Registry Operator. Bulk Transfer After Partial Portfolio Acquisition (“BTAPPA”) is a registry service available to consenting registrars in the circumstance where (i) one ICANN-accredited registrar purchases, by means of a stock or asset purchase, merger or similar transaction, a portion but not all, of another ICANN-accredited registrar's domain name portfolio in the TLD or (ii) a newly accredited registrar (gaining registrar) requests a transfer of all domain names from the losing registrar for which the gaining registrar has served as the reseller. Upon completion of the transfer, the gaining registrar is the new sponsoring registrar. The gaining registrar must certify the BTAPPA would not otherwise qualify under ICANN’s Transfer Policy. Regards, Steinar Grøtterød