Eliminating Registry-Registrar separation within the TLD would:

  • Negate 10 years of successful competition
  • Create unfair pricing
  • Enable unfair access to competitive data

We support a new TLD process

where registrars can own a new TLD registry and/or provide technical back-end registry services, as long as they do not act as a registrar with respect to their own TLD.

Supporters

Supporter Organization Datesort icon
Roland LaPlante Afilias 1 year 11 weeks ago I support this letter.
Maarten Botterman GNKS Consult 1 year 11 weeks ago I support this letter.
Erik Huizer University Utrecht 1 year 11 weeks ago I support this letter.

I support the arguments in this letter and I do believe they should be taken into consideration.

James Galvin Afilias 1 year 11 weeks ago I support this letter.
Alexa Raad PIR 1 year 11 weeks ago I support this letter.

There are no clearly defined and well rationed reasons for turning back the clock on a well supported model of separation.

Rob Douglas IdentityTheft.info 1 year 11 weeks ago I support this letter.

I support the letter to ICANN in favor of "True Registry-Registrar Separation."

Glenn Ricart PricewaterhouseCoopers 1 year 11 weeks ago I support this letter.

With vertical integration, one can cross-subsidize and surprise registrants with higher fees only after they've advertised their domain name

Desiree Miloshevic Afilias 1 year 11 weeks ago I support this letter.

Hear hear

Frits Nolet Nolet5 1 year 11 weeks ago I support this letter.
Mohamed El Bashir .qa Registry ( ictQATAR ) 1 year 11 weeks ago I support this letter.

I support this letter regarding Registry-Registrars separation .

Kuo-Wei Wu NIIEPA 1 year 11 weeks ago I support this letter.
Ivan Avery Frey Hincks-Dellcrest 1 year 11 weeks ago I support this letter.

I support this letter in its entirety.

leon TNO 1 year 11 weeks ago I support this letter.
Ron Andruff RNA Partners, Inc. 1 year 11 weeks ago I support this letter.

Removing the division could bring about capture by large registrars who have the financial capability to "roll up" registries.

Debbie Garside GeoLang Ltd 1 year 11 weeks ago I support this letter.

I would urge ICANN to maintain their current practice of registry/registrar separation in the interest of fair trading.

David Eikel Jansen 1 year 11 weeks ago I support this letter.
Steve Petsch Charter Steel 1 year 10 weeks ago I support this letter.
Moshe Fogel Galcomm.com 1 year 10 weeks ago I support this letter.
Michael Heller SHSG Attorneys at Law 1 year 10 weeks ago I support this letter.

The concerns about privacy obviously have been widely ignored in the previous current discussion

Andrew Hammond Microsoft 1 year 10 weeks ago I support this letter.
Douglas Stoll Appalachian State University 1 year 10 weeks ago I support this letter.

As a student eager to move forward into our information-fed future, I am agree with this letter!

Thomas Moerz PSI-USA, Inc. 1 year 10 weeks ago I support this letter.

We support this letter because of potential conflict of interests, et al. data privacy.

George Sadowsky self 1 year 9 weeks ago I support this letter.

We now have a stable situation in which the wholesale and retail functions are separate -- where is there any need to change this?

Markus Eggensperger united-domains AG 1 year 8 weeks ago I support this letter.

We do support this letter as we firmly believe that past has proven this concept to be fair and reasonable.

Peter Larsen Larsen Data ApS (IANA ID: 1446) 1 year 6 weeks ago I support this letter.

We believe this gives ability to select the best provider for the given customer, both support and technically wise.