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Registrar Accreditation: Background Documents
This page was archived as of June 2010. Current information can be found here.
- Registrar Accreditation Agreement, published May 12, 1999 (historical version only).
Background Information on Registrar Accreditation
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Amendment 13 to the
US Department of Commerce's cooperative agreement with Network
Solutions, Inc., setting a registry fee of $9 per domain name
per year, payable as $18 for new registrations, and approving
the Registrar
License and Agreement, (the contract between NSI the registry
and competitive registrars, historical version only).
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Amendment 12 to the
US Department of Commerce's cooperative agreement with Network
Solutions, Inc., modifying the timeline established in Amendment
11. (Posted March 24)
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Amendment 11 to the
US Department of Commerce's cooperative agreement with Network
Solutions, Inc., requiring the establishment of a Shared Registration
System.
- NewCo
Letter: Letter from J. Beckwith
Burr, of the US Department of Commerce, to NSI, designating ICANN
as "NewCo" for the purposes of Amendment 11. (February
26, 1999)
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Draft registrar accreditation guidelines
These guidelines, and comments received about them, were the basis for the Statement of Registrar Accreditation Policy adopted by the ICANN Initial Board of Directors on March 4. They provide useful general background about the accreditation concept. Please do not rely on the details of these guidelines, however, as the policy adopted by the board includes many changes made in response to public comment.
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US Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications
& Information Administration,
Information on Management of Internet Names and Addresses
- US Department of Commerce's Paper on the Management of Internet Names and Addresses (the "White Paper")
If you have any further questions about the registrar accreditation process after reviewing these materials, please submit your questions via e-mail to accredit@icann.org.