RegisterFly - the way forward

If you want to know what ICANN is doing with respect to Registerfly and want to input into the debate surrounding what changes need to be made, please click on the headline above.

Lisbon meeting closes

The meeting has now ended. The next ICANN meeting will be held 25-29 June in San Juan, Puerto Rico.



All the information on this site will be left in place, the Puerto Rico schedule will be put up nearer the time, and the site will continue to function although in between meetings the best place place for interacting with ICANN will at its main site at icann.org and the ICANN blog at http://blog.icann.org.

Board discussion over .xxx

The following discussion took place between ICANN Board members with regard to the .xxx domain in a public meeting in Lisbon, Portugal on Friday 30 March 2007:

Note: Although transcript output is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. It is posted as an aid to understanding the proceedings at the session, but should not be treated as an authoritative record.


Explanation: The Board voted on a resolution that rejected the .xxx application, so a vote "yes" meant saying "no" to the application. This is an edited excerpt of the full meeting transcript, broken down according to each Board member and produced in an effort to provide easy access to the substantive discussion. For the full transcript click here.

Board resolutions - Lisboa 2007

The following resolutions were passed by the ICANN Board on Friday 30 March 2007 in Lisbon.

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Registrar review

This forum has been set up specifically to attract comments from the wider Internet on what they believe is the best way forward for dealing with the problems exposed by registrar RegisterFly.

It is a forum, so we welcome debate on the issue, however ICANN retains the right to delete posts that stray off-topic, make libellous claims or accusations or which become abusive.

The hope is that this forum will help ideas coalesce into firm suggested policy changes.

RegisterFly chatroom discussion

The following discussion over RegisterFly occurred in the chatroom on ICANN's public participation website during the public forum on Monday 26 March.

Note: This is an excerpt of the full chatroom archive covering just the discussion over RegisterFly in the morning of Monday 26 March 2007. The full chatroom archive covering all days of the conference and all those events that took place in the main room (Floriana 1+2) can be found here.

Board discussion over RegisterFly

The following is the discussion held over RegisterFly at the ICANN Board meeting on Friday 31 March 2007.

RegisterFly was also the topic of discussion for an hour at the end of the Public Forum on Monday 26 March 2007. The public forum's full transcript is available here.

Note: Although transcript output is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. It is posted as an aid to understanding the proceedings at the session, but should not be treated as an authoritative record.


NB: This is an edited excerpt of the full meeting transcript, broken down according to each Board member and produced in an effort to provide easy access to the substantive discussion. For the Board meeting's full transcript click here.

Public forum discussion over RegisterFly

The following is the discussion held over RegisterFly at the ICANN public forum on Monday 26 March 2007. The transcript for the entire public forum can be found here.

RegisterFly was also the topic of discussion at a Board meeting on Friday 31 March. A hyperlinked version of that discussion is available here.

Note: Although transcript output is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. It is posted as an aid to understanding the proceedings at the session, but should not be treated as an authoritative record.


NB: This is an edited excerpt of the full meeting transcript, broken down according to each Board member and produced in an effort to provide easy access to the substantive discussion.

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