What’s Hot at ICANN? A brief backgrounder
ResellerClub Hosting Summit
2 November 2012 Mumbai, India
Topics
• ICANN’s Role in Domain Name Registra7ons
• Registrar Accredita7on Agreement (RAA) Nego7a7ons
• Organiza7onal Changes • New gTLDs • MyICANN
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ICANN’s Role in Domain Name Registrations
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gTLD Contractual Rela7onships
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Registry
Registrar Registrant
Registry Agreement
Registrar Accreditation Agreement
(RAA)
Registry-Registrar Agreement
(RRA)
RegistrationAgreement
ICANN’s Rela7onship with Registrars
• Manage rela7onships with more than 1,000 ICANN Accredited Registrars
• Conduct contract & policy trainings through outreach and regional mee7ngs
• Audit and enforce ICANN’s contracts & policies
• Build and maintain strategic, collabora7ve rela7onships
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ICANN’s Rela7onship with Registrars
• Use communica7on and compliance tools to create value and deliver mutual business objec7ves
• Focus on aspects that really maOer – trust, approach to dealing with problems, mee7ng stakeholder needs and providing incen7ves to perform
• Use compliance to level compe77ve marketplace by elimina7ng bad actors
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RAA Negotiations
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RAA Nego7a7ons
• New Contract for Registrars to Reflect Changing Environment
• Greater Law Enforcement Issues • Streamlined Process to Add TLDs • Data Reten7on and Whois specs • Reseller Accountability • Privacy/Proxy Accredita7on • Data Valida7on
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Organizational Changes
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Organiza7onal Changes
• New CEO – Fadi Chehadé • Emphasis on Interna7onaliza7on
– 5 billion new Internet users over the next 20 years, mostly from Asia
– Expansion of Mul7stakeholder Model
• Global/Stakeholder Engagement – Two new VPs in Europe
• Regional VPs
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Organiza7onal Changes
• Matrix model designed to bring ICANN services closer to Internet user in all of regions, and to help develop the Internet and the Internet industry in all regions
• India is a major ICANN priority
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Mul7stakeholder Model
• Founda7on upon which ICANN was built
• Designed to give ALL users of the Internet a voice in how the Internet operates
• Stakeholder and Advisory Groups provide input to policy making that is acted upon by the Board and implemented by Staff
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Mul7stakeholder Model – India’s Role
• India has contributed significantly to Board representa7on through Ram Mohan and Ramaraj Rajasekhar, one of the Board’s most influen7al members who’s term just expired
• Both ICANN and India’s vision of the Internet future evolving
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Mul7stakeholder Model – India’s Role
• The Mul7stakeholder Model was recently endorsed by India’s Minister of State for Telecom Sachin Pilot; spoke against “balkaniza7on” or inter-‐governmental control of the Internet
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Mul7stakeholder Model – India’s Role
• India’s Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal, maintained at two recent mee7ngs on Internet governance in India in September 2012, that India was firmly against government control of the Internet
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New Generic Top Level Domains
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New gTLDs
• 1,930 Applica7ons – 66 Geographic names – 116 IDNs
• Applica7ons from 60 countries and territories – 911 from North America. – 675 from Europe. – 303 are from Asia-‐Pacific. – 24 from La7n America and the Caribbean.
– 17 from Africa 17
New gTLDs
• Priori7za7on Drawing • IDNs top priority • First new TLDs in root by June • Rights Protec7on Mechanisms (TMCH, URS)
• Universal Acceptance
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MyICANN
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Insert Video Demo of MyICANN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dsZj-
Eo2kM4#t=283s
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Questions
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Contact/Resource Information
Contact Informa7on
Tim Cole Senior Director Registrar Rela7ons +1 310 301 5811 [email protected]
Thank You
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