Public participation site

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The recent decision to change how things are is fine. The registrars imput is needed but also I would go further and ask that public would as well. We must prevent the chaos after register fly incident. There is no mention on the front page. It is like business as usual. The people who lost a domain because of Register fly not applying the renewal fees should have redress. There should be an easier mediation process in extreme cases like what happened at registerfly. There should be shared liability between domain reseller and the orgiginal registry.