What’s Hot at ICANN? A brief backgrounder

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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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Questions

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Contact/Resource Information

Contact  Informa7on        

Tim  Cole  Senior  Director  Registrar  Rela7ons  +1  310  301  5811  7m.cole@icann.org    

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