All, I understand this has been sent previously to the constituency, but feel the need to resend due to the importance of the issue. This Issues Report and topic affects all of our business models regardless if you taste domains or not. Some of the questions on the survey: Should ICANN impose a minimum registration fee on domain registrations? Do you believe that domain tasting impacts the security and stability of the Internet? Some of the proposed solutions are the complete elimination of the 5 day Grace Period. These are issues that we as Registrars should help decide and your input is needed. The link below takes you directly to the ICANN website and the location for the BigPulse survey http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-10aug07.htm Thank you for your patience, Jeff -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [council] Request for Information on Domain Tasting Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:11:33 +0200 From: GNSO.SECRETARIAT@GNSO.ICANN.ORG <gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org> To: 'Council GNSO' <council@gnso.icann.org> http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-10aug07.htm Request for Information on Domain Tasting 10 August 2007 In view of the increase in domain tasting (definitions below), the GNSO Council recently considered an Issues Report on Domain Tasting and resolved to form an ad hoc group for further fact-finding on the effects of this practice. The ad hoc group has prepared these questions to assist in gathering facts and opinions, while inviting both qualitative and quantitative input. The group would especially appreciate statistical and other empirical evidence to support your responses, or references to potential sources of information.