.NET Designation

ICANN Engages Independent Evaluation Team to Review .NET Applications

General Information

ccTLD Issues

gTLD Registries Constituency comments regarding the City TLD Constituency Petition and Charter (10 July 2009)

Domain Tasting

GNSO gTLD Registries Constituency statement on the GNSO Issues Report on Domain Tasting (December 5, 2007)

gTLD Registries Constituency statement on the GNSO Council Draft Motion on Domain Tasting (21 March 2008)

Fast Flux

Registries Constituency input to the Fast-Flux Working Group (7 August 2008)

Feb 06 PDP, Registry Agreements

Statement by the Registries Constituency on the Draft Terms of Reference for a PDP to Guide Contractual Conditions for Existing Top Level Domains (March 2, 2006)

Preface to the statement by the Registries Constituency on the Draft Terms of Reference for a PDP to Guide Contractual Conditions for Existing Top Level Domains (March 2, 2006)

Statement concerning the Feb 06 PDP to establish Policies for Contractual Conditions for Existing Registries (April 27, 2006)

Response to the straw poll for the February 06 PDP on Contractual Conditions for Existing Registries (January 3, 2007)

General Issues

Presentation to the GNSO Council during the ICANN meeting in Vancouver, Canada (December 2, 2005)

Comment from gTLD Registries Constituency on Policy For Allocation of IPv4 Blocks to Regional Internet Registries

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Statement regarding the Draft Expressions of Interest/Pre-Registration Model (27 January 2010)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the Final Report of the ICANN Board of Directors/Governmental Advisory Group (GAC) Joint Working Group (JWG) on the Review of the Role of the GAC (4 August 2011)

GNSO Improvements

Review

gTLD Registries Constituency Comments

Registries Constituency input provided to the GNSO Council regarding suggestions for GNSO improvement for consideration by the Council (21 December, 2005)

gTLD Registries Constituency statement presented at the ICANN meeting in New Delhi, India, regarding the ICANN Board Governance Committee Working Group on GNSO Improvement Recommendations (12 February 2008)

gTLD Registries Constituency statement concerning the GNSO Improvements Report (29 April 2008)

Registries Constituency comments regarding GNSO Structure Recommendations (14 August 2008)

Registries Constituency input to GNSO Restructuring (18 September 2008)

Registries Constituency Letter to the ICANN Board on the Registry Services Evaluation Process (22 October 2008)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the GNSO Working Group Guidelines (22 March 2010)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Statement regarding the GNSO Communications and Coordination Work Team (CCT) Final Consolidated Recommendations (14 May 2010)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the GNSO Working Group Guidelines (8 February 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Process for Recognition of New GNSO Constituencies (4 March 11)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the Policy Development Process Work Team Proposed Final Report and Recommendations (31 March 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the Process for Recognition of New GNSO Constituencies (3 April 2011)

Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Policy Development Process (PDP) Work Team Final Report and Recommendations (9 July 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on Revisions to Annex A of the Bylaws to Adopt the New GNSO PDP (5 December 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on Further ICANN Bylaw Changes Following Adoption of Revised Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Policy Development Process (PDP (1 March 2012)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the Draft Advice Letter on Consumer Trust, Consumer Choice, and Competition, 23 February 2012 (16 April 2012)

gTLD Program

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Comments on the new gTLDs Draft Applicant Guidebook (DAG), Version 3, Modules 5 and 6 (20 November 2009)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Comments on the new gTLDs Draft Applicant Guidebook (DAG), Version 3, Modules 1 through 4 (20 November 2009)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Comments on the Expressions of Interest in New gLTDs (11 December 2009)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group

Registries Constituency statement, Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Set A (2 October 2008)

Registries Constituency petition for approval of the Articles of Operation for the new Registries Stakeholders Group (RySG) in the Contracted Parties House of the GNSO (24 April 2009)

Registries Constituency comments in response to the request for advice regarding Constitutency Day (29 April 2009)

Registries Constituency comments regarding the IDN gTLD Constituency Petition and Charter posed on 21 April 2009 for discussion by the ICANN community (20 May 2009)

gTLD Registries Constituency submittal to the gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Petition and Charter (note this version includes changes recommended by the SIC) (22 July 2009)

ICANN Issues

Registries Constituency statement as adopted and submitted to ICANN regarding the ICANN/VeriSign Settlement (1 December 2005)

Registry Operators' Statement regarding Objections to the Proposed VeriSign Settlement (February 20, 2006)

gTLD Registries Constituency Statement on the ICANN Travel Support Policy (16 April 2008)

Registries Constituency comments regarding the ICANN Board Review Working Group Interim Report (15 April 2009)

gTLD Registries Constituency comments regarding ICANN Expenditure Analysis by Stakeholder Interest Area (13 July 2009)

Registries Stakeholder Group Comments regarding Improving Institutional Confidence: The Way Forward (25 September 2009)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Comments on the Draft Report of the Nominating Committee (NomCom) Review Finalization Work Group (22 November 2009)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Comments on the Rights Protection Mechanisms and the ICANN Board Letter to the GNSO Council (22 November 2009)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Proposal, Comments to ICANN's Draft Proposal for Affirmation Review, Requirements and Implementation Processes (10 February 2010)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement regarding Procedures for Notification of Breach or Termination of a Registry Agreement (18 March 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the FY 12 Community Travel Support Guidelines (22 June 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on ICANN Public Comments, Phase II of the Proposed Process Improvements (30 September 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on revisions to Conflicts of Interest Policy and Bylaws to allow Board to consider compensation for Director services (2 October 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on Vertical Integration on the Response to the ICANN Board of Directors, Board Governance Committee, Inquiry on Outstanding Communications (26 January 2012)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the ICANN Board Conflicts of Interest Review, Revised Conflicts of Interest Policy and Related Governance Documents (2 April 2012)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments filed with the ICANN Compliance Team regarding a request for response to questions raised on the Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA) Authentication (5 April 2012)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the Security, Stability and Resiliency Review Team Draft Report and Recommendations (14 April 2012)

ICANN Strategic Planning and Operating Budgets

Comments concerning the draft ICANN Strategic Plan (February 28, 2005)

gTLD Registries Constituency comments submitted to ICANN regarding the ICANN Budget published on May 17, 2005 (22 June 2005)

ICANN Strategic Planning Issues Paper comments provided to representatives of the GNSO Council attending Strategic Planning meeting with ICANN on October 19, 2005

gTLD Registries Constituency comments to the ICANN 2007-11 Strategic Plan (August 23, 2007)

Registries Constituency Questions/Comments on the ICANN FY 2010 Operations Plan and Budget (18 March 2009)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Statement on the ICANN Draft Strategic Plan for 2010-2013 (20 January 2010)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Statement, Framework for ICANN's FY 2011 Operating Plan and Budget (1 April 2010)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the Proposed Framework for the FY 2012 Operating Plan and Budget (4 April 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the Formulation of the ICANN 2012-2015 Strategic Plan (29 August 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Framework for the FY 2013 Operating Plan and Budget (22 February 2012)

IDN

GTLD Registries Constituency Comments

ICANN Statement on Homograph Attacks and Request for Public Comment

Statement made on behalf of gTLD Registries Constituency during the IDN Workshop held at the ICANN meeting in Luxembourg City (13 July 2005)

gTLD Registries Constituency statement regarding the draft Interim Report of the IDNC Working Group (24 April 2008)

Registries Constituency comments regarding String Length Requirement for IDN TLDs (7 January 2009)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Interim Paper on Policy Aspects Regarding Introduction of Single Character IDN TLDs (9 September 2010)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Statement on the Draft Final Report on Policy Aspects Regarding Introduction of Single Character IDN TLDs (5 January 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the Interim Report of the Internationalized Registration Data Working Group (14 March 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group preliminary comments on the JIG Initial Report on Universal Acceptance of IDN TLDs dated 12/20/11 (25 February 2012)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the Second Annual Review of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process (28 April 2012)

Implementation Recommendation Team

Comments from the Registries Constituency on the Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) Final Report (6 July 2009)

Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Statement on the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B PDP (16 October 2009)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy PDP, Part B, Initial Report (31 July 2010)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Proposed Final Report and Recommendations of the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part B Policy Development process (31 March 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part B Policy Development Process (PDP) Recommendations for Board Consideration (4 August 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Preliminary Issue Report on the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part C (24 August 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group response to the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part C Policy Development Process (PDP) (4 January 2012)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part B PDP, Recommendation 8, Concerning Standardizing and Clarifying WHOIS Status Messages (23 March 2012)

Introduction of New gTLDs

Constituency statement on the Terms of Reference for new gTLDs (January 30, 2006)

gTLD Registries Constituency Impact Statement regarding the Introduction of New gLTDs (June 6, 2007)

Registries Constituency Comments on Maintaining a Good User Experience with New gTLDs (12 March 2008)

Registries Constituency statement on the contract provisions contained in the Draft Guidebook for New gTLDs (5 December 2008)

Registries Constituency comments on Registry-Registrar Separation (and Section 2.8 of the Second Draft Applicant Guidebook for the New gTLD Process) (13 April 2009)

Registries Constituency comments on Modules 5-6 of the Second Draft Applicant Guidebook for the New gTLD Process (13 April 2009)

Registries Constituency comments on Modules 1-4 of the the Second Draft Applicant Guidebook for the New gTLD Process (13 April 2009)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Comments on the new gTLDs Draft Applicant Guidebook (DAG), Version 3, Modules 5 and 6 (20 November 2009)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Comments on the new gTLDs Draft Applicant Guidebook (DAG), Version 3, Modules 1 through 4 (20 November 2009)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Comments on the Expressions of Interest in New gLTDs (11 December 2009)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Proposal, Amendment Provision for the Draft Base Registry Agreement (8 February 2010)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the Draft Applicant Guidebook, Version 4, "Outcomes of the String Similarity Review" (2 July 2010)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Draft Applicant Guidebook (DAG), Version 4, Module 5 and the Base Agreement (21 July 2010)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Draft Applicant Guidebook (DAG), Version 4, Modules 1 - 3 (10 August 2010)

Executive Summary on the gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the Proposed Final New gTLD Applicant Guidebook (7 December 2010)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Statement on the Proposed Final New gTLD Applicant Guidebook (7 December 2010)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the Recommendation 6 Community Working Group (CWG) Recommendations and the Recommendation 6 CWG Responses to the ICANN Board, dated 7 January 2011 (2 February 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement and comments on the ICANN Board Notes on the GAC's New gTLDs Scorecard (15 March 2011)

Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the New Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) Applicant Guidebook – April 2011 Discussion Draft (15 May 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the ICANN FY 12 Draft Operating Plan and Budget (16 June 2011)

Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the New gTLD Applicant Guidebook, Version 7, Section 2.10 (16 June 2011)

Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Second Milestone Reort of the JAS Working Group, Expanding Developing Economies Participation in the New gTLD Program (6 July 2011)

Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Joint SO/AC New gTLD Applicant Support Working Group Final Report (17 September 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Proposal for Protection of International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Red Cross/Red Crescent Names at the Top Level (7 March 2012)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group letter to the ICANN Board of Directors regarding a request for New gTLD Applicant Guidebook change regarding the treatment of confusingly similar strings (14 March 2012)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group response to the challenge of New TLDs on ICANN structures and operations (27 April 2012)

LSE Report, GNSO Improvements

gTLD Registries Constituency comments regarding the LSE GNSO Review (December 5, 2006)

gLTD Registries Constituency comments regarding the Development of Transparency and Accountability Management Operating Principles (December 30, 2006)

Policy Development Process

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Policy Development Process (PDP) Work Team Initial Report (18 August 2010)

Post Delegation Dispute Resolution Process

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Comments on the Post Delegation Dispute Resolution Process (PDDRP) (22 November 2009)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Statement on the Post Delegation Dispute Resolution Process (PDDRP) (1 April 2010)

Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Preliminary Issues Report on the Current State of the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) (13 July 2011)

Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR)

Comments of the gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group on the Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Policy Development Process (5 October 2009)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Initial Report on the Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) Policy Development Process (15 August 2010)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) Working Group Proposed Final Report (21 April 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) Recommendations (7 September 2011)

Registration Abuse

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Statement regarding the "Registration Abuse Policies Working Group Initial Report" (26 March 2010)

Registry Services

Constituency Statement (March 3, 2004)

Constituency Statement attached to Final GNSO Report

General Information

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Comments on the Process for gTLD Registry Agreement Amendment (1 April 2010)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on a clarification of key distinctions between the Sponsored and Community-Based TLD Models (6 May 2011)

Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the NTIA Further Notice of Inquiry (FNOI), the Internet Assigned Names and Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions (28 July 2011)

Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the Preliminary GNSO Issue Report on the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) Amendments (13 January 2012)

Security, Stability and Resiliency Issues

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Statement on the Expedited Registry Security Requests (ERSR) (16 November 2009)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Comments, High Security Top-Level Domain (HSTLD), Draft Program Development Snapshot (8 April 2010)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Statements regarding the Proposed Strategic Initiatives for Improved DNS Security, Stability and Resiliency (SSR), and the Global DNS-CERT Business Case (14 April 2010)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Statement, Zone File Access Concept Paper (8 April 2010)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the DNS-CERT Operational Requirements and Collaboration Analysis Workshop (8 July 2010)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the Security, Stability and Resiliency of the DNS Review Team (6 April 2011)

Selection of New Sponsored TLDs

General Information and Public Comments for Proposed Sponsored Top Level Domains (TLDs)

Single-Letter and Single-Digit Domain Names at the Second Level

gTLD Registries Constituency Statement, Release of Single-Letter and Single-Digit Domain Names at the Second Level (15 December 2007)

Trademark Issues

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Statement regarding the "Special Trademark Issues (STI) Review Team Recommendations (26 January 2010)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group, Proposal for the Trademark Clearing House (Revised February 2010) (1 April 2010)

Transfers

Dispute Resolution Providers for Transfer Dispute Resolution Policy

GNSO gTLD Registries Constituency Statement, Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy, Clarification of Reasons for Denial of a Transfer Request (21 December 2007)

General Information/Updates

Vertical Integration

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Initial Report on Vertical Integration Between Registrars and Registries (12 August 2010)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Proposed ICANN Process for Handling Requests for Removal of Cross-Ownership Restrictions for Existing gTLDs (1 June 2011)

WHOIS

Registries Constituency Statement on the GNSO Whois report, Definiton 1

Statement submitted to the ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Whois Task Force 1 on behalf of the gTLD Registry Constituency

Statement submitted to the ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Whois Task Force 3 (Accuracy of Data) on behalf of the gTLD Registry Constituency

Statement of the gTLD Registries Constituency on Whois Task Force 1/2 Recommendation: Improving Notification and Consent for the Use of Contact Data in the Whois System (February 16, 2005)

gTLD Registries Constituency statement concerning Whois Combined Task Force Policy/Advice Recommendation 2 on conflicts between national privacy laws and Registries or Registrars contractual obligations to ICANN (21 July 2005)

The GTLD Registry Constituency (RyC) Statement on the Whois Combined Task Force Terms of Reference Tasks 1 and 2 (Section 2.5) (August 17, 2005)

Statement in support of sponsorship of the Whois Privacy Conference, "Building Bridges on ICANN's Whois Dilemma," to be held on Tuesday, November 29, 2005, at the ICANN meeting in Vancouver

Whois Privacy Conference, "Building Bridges on ICANN's Whois Dilemma," to be held on Tuesday, November 29, 2005, at the ICANN meeting in Vancouver

Response by the gTLD Registries Constituency to Motion 1 as approved by the GNSO Council on July 20, 2006 (July 26, 2006)

Statement of the Registry Constituency statement on WHOIS Terms of Reference Items 2, 3 and 4 (January 15, 2007)

Statement of the gTLD Registries Constituency on the final Whois Task Force Report of 12 March 2007, and the Whois Outcomes Working Group Report finalized on 20 August 2007) and forwarded to the GNSO Council for consideration (October 4, 2007)

gTLD Registries Constituency statement to the Whois Study Group (20 April 2008)

Registries Constituency recommendations on the Whois Study (29 October 2008)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Inventory of WHOIS Service Requirements Initial Report (17 May 2010)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the work of the WHOIS Review Team (17 April 2011)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the Draft Roadmap to Implement SAC 051 (18 March 2012)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group statement on the WHOIS Review Team Draft Final Report (17 March 2012)

WIPO

Recommendation to the GNSO Council Regarding Policy Work on Protection of IGO Names and Abbreviations in line with WIPO 2 (May 23, 2007)

Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)

Background and General Updates