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We would also like to stress that comments covering an entirely different topic to the actual blog post they are attached to are also frowned upon. If it is a mistake, we have no problem, but the ICANN blog is there to be a reasonable and helpful communication and interaction tool – not to lobby by the backdoor, or harangue staff over the same issue out of context.”

This blog post asks people a number of clear questions, none of which you have attempted to answer but instead choose to claim that the RegisterFly issue meant that the best option was “political reform” of ICANN – whatever that means.

You also claimed that ICANN staff are repeatedly putting the phone down on you. There is one persistent poster on this blog that makes this claim frequently in the full knowledge that it isn’t true.

So: your post is in the wrong place, is unclear and makes an unsubstantiated allegation. For that reason we have edited it. Feel free to write whatever you like on other messageboards on the Internet, or to write a more normal response which we then happily retain on this blog.

Kieren McCarthy
General manager of public participation, ICANN

Why does ICANN ask for comments and then delete???

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I very well understand that the grace period is the choice and decision of the registrar and they may or may not give to the registrant.

Redemption period is given (by the registry) just to make sure that the existing registrar gets enough time and chance to get back his domain if he fails to renew it in time. Registrars are intelligent enough to put in their terms that they may not give this option to the customer.

The domains are simply sold of (with the existing registration date) after the expiry of the domain in the name of ‘backorders’. The customer is helpless! Yes it is his responsibility to renew the domain in time but it is his right to get the redemption period if not the free grace period.

I would request ICANN to read the terms of various registrars and see if they really follow the terms laid down for them?

Some interesting lines from a well known “back order” company.

SnapNames continues to add members of this elite registrar group to its Priority Partner program, which now includes Network Solutions, Dotster, Register.com, DotRegistrar, DomainPeople, Moniker, DirectNIC and others. These partners offer their expired domains through SnapNames before they are available anywhere else in the public market, giving SnapNames customers exclusive access to some of the highest value–and best priced–domain names on the market.

I don;t think I will get anything but a beat around the bush answer on the questions I’m going to ask but here they go anyway.

If you really think you have improved over the past few years then why did you award Verisign a limitless contract on .com and .net tld’s with price increases when other stable organizations said they could and would do it cheaper. It’s been broken down and the estimated costs to run the registry on .com is figured at $.03 per domain. The price increase expected of 7% is 6x the cost of doing business. The 7% increase alone is only 1/5 of what other companies said they would do it for. So tell me how it’s beneficial to me as a consumer that the organization who is suppose to be working in my favor grants a corporation more of my money and doesn’t give me any better service for said money. I’m suppose to think you’re doing a good job? Give me a break..

As far as the Registerfly debacle. You have shown that your jobs are pretty much useless. You had to get a court order to do your job. So please explain to me what exactly it is that you do there? That is outside of flying around the world having quarterly meeting at exotic locations.

Kieren