以後註冊局本身也可以是註冊商了
 

ICANN好像已同意放寬限制，讓域名後綴的註冊局 registry也可以是域名註冊商 registrar了。

对他们价格要有限制，做他们分销的话，价格优势就明显了。

也許會讓價格更有競爭性, 消費者因而受惠 :whoknows

很多ccTLD不是本來就是registry兼registrar嗎?

這裡指的應該是讓gTLD的註冊局以後可註冊商吧。

就算開放了，估計定價也會像NSI一樣，否則現在各大Registrars不都要掀桌子了。呵呵

以前不是才調整政策不准註冊局身為註冊商
現在才開放，是在搞尛

的確如哈大講的是指gTLD

ICANN董事會已經決議，未來New gTLD的管理局也可以是註冊商
至於現有的gTLD管理局可否是註冊商，ICANN還會再繼續討論


來源：ICANN網站

原文摘要：

ICANN董事投票通過將不限制註冊商申請成為New gTLD管理局，經過兩年的討論，並沒有結論出個共識，因此ICANN董事徵詢了大量的專家意見傾向不限制註冊商和管理局交叉持有。

但新合約中，會加強其他相關限制 1) 不能利用交叉持有濫用相關資料 2) 具備健全的審核機制 3) 分級制度及終止合約、懲罰性賠償 4) ICANN有權針對相關競爭適度管理

對於交叉持股以往並沒有相關的政策，對此ICANN也在討論針對目前的gTLD管理局合約是否要繼續或是修改、移除相關規定(目前持股限制為15%)

ICANN之前也要求GNSO對交叉持股討論出共識解決，但GNSO最近回覆該單位無法做出共識。



以下為原文：

ICANN Board Votes to Enhance New gTLDs Competition

New gTLD Registrars and Registries will Compete for the Benefit of Consumers

9 November 2010

ICANN's Board of Directors voted to allow new gTLD registries to own registrars, opting not to create new rules prohibiting registrars from applying for or operating new gTLD registries.

Following over two years of community discussions, which had not resulted in consensus, the Board carefully considered expert economic advice, community comments, and numerous proposed approaches to registry-registrar cross-ownership.

"In the absence of existing policy or new bottom-up policy recommendations, the Board saw no rationale for placing restrictions on cross-ownership;" said Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman of the Board. "Any possible abuses can be better addressed by properly targeted mechanisms. Co-ownership rules are not an optimal technique in this area."

Under the Board resolution additional enforcement mechanisms have been added. New gTLD registry agreements are to include: (1) a Code of Conduct prohibiting any misuse of data or other abusive conduct arising out of registry-registrar cross-ownership; (2) robust auditing requirements; (3) graduated sanctions up to and including contractual termination and punitive damages; and (4) ICANN's right to refer competition issues to appropriate government competition authorities.

Background: The cross-ownership provisions have varied over time and no formal "policy" on this topic has ever been recommended or adopted by ICANN. (For example, each of the seven new gTLDs delegated by ICANN in the 2000-2001 proof-of-concept introduced by ICANN in 2000 have featured some degree of registry-registrar cross-operation or cross-ownership.)

The ICANN community has been discussing whether to continue, expand or remove the restrictions in current registry agreements that limit the existing registries from owning more than 15% of a registrar. Some have urged the creation of new rules that would for the first time prohibit registrars from applying for or operating new gTLDs.

The ICANN Board had previously attempted to spur a consensus view, asking ICANN's GNSO to resolve the registry-registrar cross-ownership question. In May 2010, the ICANN Board encouraged the GNSO to develop a consensus based policy on this issue, but indicated that the Board would review the issue if no consensus position was reached. The GNSO recently reported that it has been unable to reach consensus.