Domain Grace Period Deletions Policy Change From ICANN
Posted on | December 19, 2008 | 3 Comments
An email has just been sent out by domain registrar Dynadot regarding grace deletions. Apparently, ICANN released a statement severely limiting the use of grace deletions compared to the current system. According to the new policy, it seems that registrars have a max of “10% or 50 threshold maximum number of AGP deletes per top-level domain in a given month” without being charged a fee. Dynadot states that it’s either they are going to remove domain grace-deletions or “raise grace deletion fees substantially”. Guess ICANN is REALLY clamping down on domain tasting.
I have yet to receive any e-mails from other registrars, so I can’t comment on any of those. I think Moniker does grace deletions for a 20cent fee as well, but no new news yet. I’m going to have to read the whole “Add Grace Period (AGP) Limits Policy Implementation Notes” in full to make sure I understand it properly, but it doesn’t look like it’s the best of news (of course, for those who use the grace deletions for proper uses and not abusing its purpose). Will have to wait until the new year and see how this pans out.
Dynadot e-mail in full context:
We have several important announcements to be made before the new year starts:
ICANN Announces a New AGP Limits Policy
ICANN has recently approved an AGP (Add Grace Period) Limits Policy which will limit the number of grace deletions a domain registrar can make without incurring a registration fee. This policy only applies to the global TLDs such as COM, NET, ORG, etc. It will probably have little to no effect on the country TLDs such as WS, CN, US, etc.
We expect this policy will be implemented by the central registries sometime in early 2009. Due to this change, we may have to raise grace deletion fees substantially or remove grace deletions altogether.
More information about this change can be found here:
AGP (Add Grace Period) Limits Policy
http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-policy-17dec08-en.htm
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December 20th, 2008 @ 1:11 am
It is the only way we are going to stop these people taking advantage of our domains but again the only people that are going to win out of this is the domain registrar!
I know some large porfolio domain tasters shall be put off by this but it wont stop them!
Regards,
Robbie
December 20th, 2008 @ 3:06 am
Is Dynadot giving 50 free grace deletions per month ?
December 20th, 2008 @ 3:40 am
@ RegFeeNames – It sucks that these heavy tasters have ruined it for a lot of people, but I guess that’s life. I’ve always enjoyed having the ability to “delete” my name if I realized it was a screw-up (especially when dealing with international domains or wanting an appraisal), but oh well. I really hope they don’t cut the service altogether.
@ Charley – No, ICANN said that they want to limit the grace period deletions to 50/month/registrar, according to what I read in the ICANN article.