1. What’s Hot at ICANN?
A brief backgrounder
ResellerClub 2 November 2012
Hosting Summit Mumbai, India

2. Topics
• ICANN’s
Role
in
Domain
Name
Registra7ons
• Registrar
Accredita7on
Agreement
(RAA)
Nego7a7ons
• Organiza7onal
Changes
• New
gTLDs
• MyICANN
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3. ICANN’s Role in Domain
Name Registrations
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4. gTLD
Contractual
Rela7onships
Registry
Agreement Registry
Registry-Registrar
Agreement
(RRA)
Registrar
Accreditation Registration
Registrar Agreement
Registrant
Agreement
(RAA)
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5. ICANN’s
Rela7onship
with
Registrars
• Manage
rela7onships
with
more
than
1,000
ICANN
Accredited
Registrars
• Conduct
contract
&
policy
trainings
through
outreach
and
regional
mee7ngs
• Audit
and
enforce
ICANN’s
contracts
&
policies
• Build
and
maintain
strategic,
collabora7ve
rela7onships
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6. ICANN’s
Rela7onship
with
Registrars
• Use
communica7on
and
compliance
tools
to
create
value
and
deliver
mutual
business
objec7ves
• Focus
on
aspects
that
really
maOer
–
trust,
approach
to
dealing
with
problems,
mee7ng
stakeholder
needs
and
providing
incen7ves
to
perform
• Use
compliance
to
level
compe77ve
marketplace
by
elimina7ng
bad
actors
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7. RAA Negotiations
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8. RAA
Nego7a7ons
• New
Contract
for
Registrars
to
Reflect
Changing
Environment
• Greater
Law
Enforcement
Issues
• Streamlined
Process
to
Add
TLDs
• Data
Reten7on
and
Whois
specs
• Reseller
Accountability
• Privacy/Proxy
Accredita7on
• Data
Valida7on
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9. Organizational
Changes
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10. Organiza7onal
Changes
•
New
CEO
–
Fadi
Chehadé
• Emphasis
on
Interna7onaliza7on
– 5
billion
new
Internet
users
over
the
next
20
years,
mostly
from
Asia
– Expansion
of
Mul7stakeholder
Model
• Global/Stakeholder
Engagement
– Two
new
VPs
in
Europe
• Regional
VPs
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11. Organiza7onal
Changes
• Matrix
model
designed
to
bring
ICANN
services
closer
to
Internet
user
in
all
of
regions,
and
to
help
develop
the
Internet
and
the
Internet
industry
in
all
regions
• India
is
a
major
ICANN
priority
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12. Mul7stakeholder
Model
• Founda7on
upon
which
ICANN
was
built
• Designed
to
give
ALL
users
of
the
Internet
a
voice
in
how
the
Internet
operates
• Stakeholder
and
Advisory
Groups
provide
input
to
policy
making
that
is
acted
upon
by
the
Board
and
implemented
by
Staff
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13. Mul7stakeholder
Model
–
India’s
Role
• India
has
contributed
significantly
to
Board
representa7on
through
Ram
Mohan
and
Ramaraj
Rajasekhar,
one
of
the
Board’s
most
influen7al
members
who’s
term
just
expired
• Both
ICANN
and
India’s
vision
of
the
Internet
future
evolving
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14. Mul7stakeholder
Model
–
India’s
Role
• The
Mul7stakeholder
Model
was
recently
endorsed
by
India’s
Minister
of
State
for
Telecom
Sachin
Pilot;
spoke
against
“balkaniza7on”
or
inter-­‐
governmental
control
of
the
Internet
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15. Mul7stakeholder
Model
–
India’s
Role
• India’s
Telecom
Minister
Kapil
Sibal,
maintained
at
two
recent
mee7ngs
on
Internet
governance
in
India
in
September
2012,
that
India
was
firmly
against
government
control
of
the
Internet
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16. New Generic Top Level
Domains
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17. New
gTLDs
• 1,930
Applica7ons
– 66
Geographic
names
– 116
IDNs
• Applica7ons
from
60
countries
and
territories
–
911
from
North
America.
–
675
from
Europe.
–
303
are
from
Asia-­‐Pacific.
–
24
from
La7n
America
and
the
Caribbean.
–
17
from
Africa
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18. New
gTLDs
• Priori7za7on
Drawing
• IDNs
top
priority
• First
new
TLDs
in
root
by
June
• Rights
Protec7on
Mechanisms
(TMCH,
URS)
• Universal
Acceptance
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19. MyICANN
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20. Insert Video Demo of
MyICANN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
feature=player_embedded&v=dsZj-
Eo2kM4#t=283s
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21. Questions
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22. Contact
Informa7on
Contact/Resource Information
Tim
Cole
Senior
Director
Registrar
Rela7ons
+1
310
301
5811
7m.cole@icann.org

23. Thank You