Dear Mike, and NARALO members, I was reminded of the Delhi Terminated Registrar Workshop when I recently started looking for domain registration services for a new project... I had thought of using Rick Wesson's firm (Alice's Registry) as I had appreciated Rick's principled stand on many issues. So I went to the list of accredited registrars to look up the contact details. Alice's Registry still appears to be accredited, but the contact phone number is disconnected. When I went to the website, all I saw was a pay-per-click parking site with a notice by Sedo that the domain ar.com may be for sale by its owner. Checking the monthly registry reports, I see that Alice's Registry has 877 .com names still under management. As all indications are that Alice's Registry may soon cease operations (if this hasn't happened already), I wondered as to the next steps in this process... In Delhi, Registrar Liaison Manager Mike Zupke stated: "one of the tasks that we've taken on is creating a procedure that we can make public, so that people can see exactly how we intend to address these situations going forward. Obviously, this is the first significant public comment effort in that, but we intend to, of course, continue that dialogue with the community." Inasmuch as the current situation concerns a North American registrar, perhaps we can prevail upon Mike to provide the NARALO with an overview of the procedure that Staff is presently contemplating... Over time, some registrar failures are inevitable; clearly we need to have an agreed-upon process in place so that registants aren't unduly impacted. Mike, if you don't mind, can you tell us of the next steps that are being considered, and if the data from Alice's Registry has been escrowed? regards, Danny ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping