Transfer policy - Update and seeking comments

[farzaneh badii]

Dear NCSG,

I along with Wisdom are your reps on  the Transfer policy working group. A
lot of operational matters (which I shared with you some time ago) but now
two distinct topics are being discussed that I want to seek your advice on:

1. Hefty transfer fee: apparently some domain name registrants have faced
hefty transfer fees when trying to transfer. How should we solve this
problem? It doesn't look like there is a policy for fee control I don't
even think that is possible in this group, but do you think there has to be
a clause somewhere that mentions that transfer fee should ideally not exist
or be waived or the registrant should be told about the transfer fee before
they register? How should we go about this? This causes some competition
issues as well since registrars can discourage people from transferring by
exerting hefty fees.

2. Adding abuse: one of the reasons to deny transfer is "fraud". It is not
very clear what is meant by that but now ICANN org suggested that there
should be some addition to fraud because registrars sometimes deny transfer
because of abuse too. Abuse is a loaded term and includes many things. Most
registries and registrars are in favor of adding abuse as a ground to deny
transfer. we don't agree because it is too loaded. We mentioned perhaps you
can say because of violation of registration agreement but some argue that
violation of registration agreement includes too many items some that are
not even in ICANN mission and it is too broad. I think that is a good
argument but now I don't have a solution or an alternative to abuse. What
do you think?

3. Identification v Ownership: this comes up in many ICANN policy
discussions. People think in order to verify ownership they have to
"identify" the domain name registrant. I am sceptical and find it even a
dangerous concept. I think there might be ways to verify ownership without
identification. Or at least not bring the "identification" issues to ICANN.
This is what I have been paying attention to always making sure that we
don't have "identification" where we don't need it. If you have any
comments on that please let me know.


P.S. I can't attend the meetings regularly but I will send updates as much
as I can when it comes to important decisions.

Best regards,












Farzaneh
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