Hi Volker, Based on the numbers given by NORID, your calculation is correct. Whether a 20% transfer rate is to be considered “high” or “low” compared to other TLDs, is hard to say. My point in sending this to the group, was to give an example that FOAs may not be needed. A valid auth-code is the criteria for a successful inter-registrar transfer – no “paperwork” Regards, Steinar From: Volker Greimann <vgreimann@key-systems.net> Date: Tuesday, 22 June 2021 at 17:06 To: Steinar Grøtterød <steinar@recito.no> Cc: "gnso-tpr@icann.org" <gnso-tpr@icann.org> Subject: Re: [GNSO-TPR] Transfer statistics for .NO - the top level for Norway So that means that about 20% of all .NO domains are transferred every year, auth-code only? -- Volker A. Greimann General Counsel and Policy Manager KEY-SYSTEMS GMBH T: +49 6894 9396901 M: +49 6894 9396851 F: +49 6894 9396851 W: www.key-systems.net<http://www.key-systems.net/> Key-Systems GmbH is a company registered at the local court of Saarbruecken, Germany with the registration no. HR B 18835 CEO: Oliver Fries and Robert Birkner Part of the CentralNic Group PLC (LON: CNIC) a company registered in England and Wales with company number 8576358. This email and any files transmitted are confidential and intended only for the person(s) directly addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, transmission, distribution, or other forms of dissemination is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete this email with any files that may be attached. On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 12:23 PM Steinar Grøtterød <steinar@recito.no<mailto:steinar@recito.no>> wrote: Dear Working Group Members, On request to NORID - the .NO Registry Operator, I have received the following numbers for inter-registrar transfers; 2017: 156 270 2018: 149 835 2019: 152 558 2020: 167 688 2021 per 31. May: 70 728 The .NO domain name policy requires only a valid auth-code for an inter-registrar transfer, i.e. no FOAs are required. The above statistics do not include transfers to "REG0" - a process NORID uses for a deletion of a .NO domain name. According to NORID, the number of “disputes” are zero (0) after mandatory auth-codes were implemented for an inter-registrar transfer. Per Dec 31 2020, the total .NO domain names were 805 539 (reference https://www.norid.no/en/aktuelt/2020-et-ar-for-digitale-sjumilssteg/). Updated statistics: https://www.norid.no/en/om-domenenavn/nokkeltall/ The .NO domain name registration policy can be found on https://www.norid.no/en/om-domenenavn/regelverk-for-no/ Thanks to Hilde Thunem, CEO of NORID for the transfer statistics.. Regards, Steinar Grøtterød At-Large _______________________________________________ GNSO-TPR mailing list GNSO-TPR@icann.org<mailto:GNSO-TPR@icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-tpr