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Discussion Paper: Redemption Grace Periods for Deleted Names <br><br><br><br>osted: 14 February 2002 <br> <br><br><br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br><br>Redemption Grace Periods for Deleted Names<br><br><br><br>Introduction<br><br><br><br>In recent months, ICANN has experienced a rising tide of problems and complaints relating to deletion of domain-name registrations. Businesses and consumers are losing the rights to their domain names through registration deletions caused by mistake, inadvertence, or fraud. Current procedures for correcting these mistakes have proven inadequate. To move toward a solution to these problems, this proposal is presented to the Internet community for discussion in the time leading up to and at ICANN’s meetings in Accra, Ghana, 10-14 March 2002.<br><br><br><br><br><br>Causes of Unintentional Domain Registration Deletions<br><br><br><br>Domain-name registrations can be (and frequently are) deleted from TLD registries without a deliberate decision by the current registrant to let them expire. Unintentional deletions can result from registrant mistake, registrar mistake, or in some cases fraud or domain-name hijacking.<br><br><br><br>robably the most common type of unintentional deletion is caused by registrant mistake. Registrants sometimes inadvertently fail to renew registrations due to a clerical mistake or failure to receive a renewal notice (usually as a result of failing to keep registration contact information up-to-date.) If a registrant moves or changes Internet service providers, the registrant might not receive a notice from its registrar informing it that a renewal payment is due. Also, some registrants may accidentally overlook a renewal notice or mistake it for a solicitation or spam. Section 3.7.5 of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement requires registrars to cancel the registration of any domain name for which the registrant fails to pay a renewal fee at the conclusion of a fixed registration period.<br><br><br><br>Another class of "inadvertent" deletions arises from the actions of domain-name hijackers. Hijackers have been known to compromise a registrant’s account at a registrar, modify the registrant’s contact information, request a transfer of the registration to another registrar, and then issue a request to the registrar to delete the registration. The hijacker or a third party can then register the domain immediately through some other registrar. "Laundering" the hijacked domain through two, three, or more registrars can frustrate the process of trying to correct the original error and get the registration restored to its legitimate registrant.<br><br><br><br>Yet another category of unintended domain registration deletions arises from registrar mistakes, including those caused by registry/systems-related confusion. There is a provision in the current version of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement that is meant to address mistakes of this type (specifically Section 3.7.7.11), but in practice this has proved to be less-than-fully effective. The current procedure is not mandatory ?it requires voluntary cooperation by registrars to correct mistakes. In many cases, registrars have been reluctant to assist in correcting mistakes, especially when the correction would require taking away a domain name from the registrar’s paying customer and handing it back to some other registrar and its customer.<br><br><br><br>Under the current grace-period system, deleted names are available for re-registration by others either instantaneously, or in some cases after a five-day registry hold "delete pending period." The current five-day delete pending period only applies to names deleted outside of an applicable grace period. Names deleted while subject to a grace period are immediately deleted from the registry and made available for re-registration by others.<br><br><br><br>The exact details of each registry’s grace period policy are set forth as part of the functional specification |
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