.NET Designation

General Information

ICANN Engages Independent Evaluation Team to Review .NET Applications

ccTLD Issues

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

Domain Tasting

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

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

Fast Flux

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

Feb 06 PDP, Registry Agreements

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

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

General Issues

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

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

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

GNSO Improvements

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

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

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

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

Registries Constituency input to GNSO Restructuring (18 September 2008)

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

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

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)

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

gTLD Registries Constituency Comments

Review

gTLD Program

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Comments on the Expressions of Interest in New gLTDs (11 December 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 new gTLDs Draft Applicant Guidebook (DAG), Version 3, Modules 5 and 6 (20 November 2009)

gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group

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)

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)

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

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

ICANN Issues

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ICANN Strategic Planning and Operating Budgets

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

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

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

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

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

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

IDN

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

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

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

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

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

ICANN Statement on Homograph Attacks and Request for Public Comment

GTLD Registries Constituency Comments

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 comments on the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy PDP, Part B, Initial Report (31 July 2010)

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

Introduction of New gTLDs

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)

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)

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group comments on the Draft Applicant Guidebook (DAG), Version 4, Modules 1 - 3 (10 August 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 statement on the Draft Applicant Guidebook, Version 4, "Outcomes of the String Similarity Review" (2 July 2010)

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

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Comments on the Expressions of Interest in New gLTDs (11 December 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 new gTLDs Draft Applicant Guidebook (DAG), Version 3, Modules 5 and 6 (20 November 2009)

Registries Constituency comments on Modules 1-4 of the 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 Registry-Registrar Separation (and Section 2.8 of the Second Draft Applicant Guidebook for the New gTLD Process) (13 April 2009)

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

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

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

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

LSE Report, GNSO Improvements

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

gTLD Registries Constituency comments regarding the LSE GNSO Review (December 5, 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 Statement on the Post Delegation Dispute Resolution Process (PDDRP) (1 April 2010)

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

Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR)

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

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

Registration Abuse

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

Registry Services

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

Constituency Statement attached to Final GNSO Report

General Information

Constituency Statement (March 3, 2004)

Security, Stability and Resiliency Issues

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

GNSO gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group Statement, Zone File Access Concept Paper (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 Comments, High Security Top-Level Domain (HSTLD), Draft Program Development Snapshot (8 April 2010)

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

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, Proposal for the Trademark Clearing House (Revised February 2010) (1 April 2010)

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

Transfers

General Information/Updates

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

Dispute Resolution Providers for Transfer Dispute Resolution Policy

Vertical Integration

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

WHOIS

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

Registries Constituency Statement on the GNSO Whois report, Definiton 1

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