Request for Comment - Transfer Policy Review Preliminary Recommendations

[Ken Herman]

Hello fellow NCSG members.

 

As an NCSG representative to the Transfer Policy Review Working Group
(TPRWG), I seek your input on proposed preliminary recommendations currently
under discussion.

 

Specifically, the working group is looking for feedback on the section of
the transfer policy related to Change of Registrant.

 

This document contains the text of the preliminary recommendations under
discussion. Please use this document to add any comments that I can take
back to the working group or questions that I will try to answer. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z8wx8KXhrwGmeKQEt2SJ8r271YcQ8-yk/edit?us
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Note that the working group leadership emphasized that this is not final
language, but simply a way to gauge response from a wider audience.

 

Great if I can have all comments or questions by next Friday, April 5. If
there is enough interest, I can arrange a zoom session and invite some
speakers who are familiar with the working group.

 

Some background/context:

1.	The current transfer policy (see the link below) includes a section
"II. Inter-Registrant Transfer (Change of Registrant)" which the working
group charter (also linked below) considered to be a problem. As noted in
the charter, "According to the Transfer Policy Review Scoping Team Report,
the Change of Registrant policy 'does not achieve the stated goals' and 'is
not relevant in the current & future domain ownership system.' "
2.	The working group, as you can see in the preliminary
recommendations, suggests changing title from "Change of Registrant' to
"Change of Registrant Data" (aka CORD), in recognition of the fact that
changing a registrant is mainly the action of altering the contact
information associated with a domain name registration.
3.	The working group also suggests removing this section from the
transfer policy and creating a new, separate policy governing any change in
registrant information.
4.	One issue that the group contended with concerns a 60-day lock on
any transfer of a domain after changes to registration information and
decided to eliminate any transfer lock. The rationale was that the lock was
confusing and restrictive to registrants. The TPR WG Charter also refers to
this: "Survey responses and data provided by ICANN's Global Support Center
indicate that registrants do not understand the 60-day lock and express
frustration when it prevents them from completing an inter-registrar
transfer."
5.	A substantial amount of discussion within the WG has focused on the
ability of registrants to "opt out" of notifications of changes to
registration data. 

Personally, I did not see anything in the discussion or the recommendations
that would be a cause of concern, with the possible exception of the issues
around opting out of notifications of changes to registration data. But
there might be some issues I am not aware of so please have a look and let
me know what you think. 

 

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

 

Thanks!

 

Ken Herman

NCUC EC NA Rep

ken at kherman.com <mailto:ken at kherman.com> 

 

Current transfer policy:

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/transfer-policy-2024-02-21-en

 

TPR WG details:

https://community.icann.org/display/TPRPDP/Transfer+Policy+Review+PDP

 

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