Hi Michele,

From the RAA:

4.1 Registrar's Ongoing Obligation to Comply With New or Revised Specifications and Policies. During the Term of this Agreement, Registrar shall comply with the terms of this Agreement on the schedule set forth in Subsection 4.4, with 4.1.1 new or revised specifications (including forms of agreement to which Registrar is a party) and policies established by ICANN as Consensus Policies in the manner described in Subsection 4.3, The Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy is a Consensus Policy -- see http://www.icann.org/en/general/consensus-policies.htm Re: How likely is it that ICANN will take action against its biggest registrar? If people (such as the ALAC) remain silent and continue to tolerate the abuse, then ICANN will continue to do nothing. By the way, have you seen the latest breach notice? -- http://www.icann.org/correspondence/burnette-to-bordes-04feb09-en.pdf It takes ICANN over a year to act even when registrars fail to pay their fees to ICANN.... and somehow ICANN expects us to believe that their compliance department can ramp up to meet the challenge of hundreds of new gTLDs while it can't even timely manage the obligations that it has at the moment. --- On Sun, 2/8/09, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight <michele@blacknight.ie> wrote:

From: Michele Neylon :: Blacknight <michele@blacknight.ie> Subject: RE: [At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Still more folk complaining about GoDaddy Transfer Policy Violations To: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org>, "dannyyounger@yahoo.com" <dannyyounger@yahoo.com> Cc: "NA Discuss" <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 8:39 AM Cheryl / Danny

GoDaddy is the biggest ICANN registrar

How likely is it that ICANN will take any action against them?

What options are open to ICANN to take against them?

The inter-registrar transfer policy isn't part of the RAA, is it?

Regards

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