Randy, You raise a good point regarding the need to consider registries as part of the equation. Consider the following: TheGlobe.com acquired the .travel registry a few years ago
From Form 10-Q for THEGLOBE.COM INC. 11-May-2007 Quarterly Report
"Based upon the Company's current financial condition, as discussed above, and without the infusion of additional capital, management does not believe that the Company will be able to fund its operations beyond May 2007." http://biz.yahoo.com/e/070511/tglo.ob10-q.html Will the potential failure of theglobe.com impact its .travel registry subsidiary? Maybe, or maybe not, but we may need to ask if a registry failure plan has been made ready. Perhaps ICANN Staff can inform us as to developments in this area... --- "RJGlass | America@Large" <jipshida@gmail.com> wrote:
As part of contingency plans, I propose ICANN set up a trust-like feature to handle defunctioning registrars and registries. The trust should have a constituency-based board and managed by a competent party.
The purpose, a place to transfer the records while providing for a temporary repository where registrars won't be directly effected. The DNS should still resolve, registrants should still manage domains, and there should be an intent to transfer domains to a new registrar. Registries should also be reassigned to an entity that could continue management of the registry.
On a temporary basis, this trust-like structure should have all the necessary means to provide management while solving the issue of where to go from there. There should be firm contingency plans for this at some point.
As part of this entity, ICANN should fund an entity to have all-inclusive responsibility for this issue, not just contracting to an existing registrar or registry, where the possibility would exist that it too would become defunct.
Thanks, Randy Glass A@L
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