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.

.EU Confirmation of Registry Registrar Separation

Posted Fri, 11/10/2006 - 11:48

The European Parliament Committee on Petitions published the attached petition concerning the registration of .eu domain names in 2006.

On page 2 of the document, the petitioner notes that:

"As concerns the registry/registrar model, it also constitutes a common approach adopted by most Top Level Domain managers. This approach which is contained in Article 3(4) of Regulation 733/2002 of the European Parliament and the Council was already announced in section 2.2 of the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council of 05.07.20002, and was not contested by any party during the consultations and discussions that lead to the adoption of the .eu Regulations. The main advantage of this model is that by avoiding any commercial relation between registrants and the Registry, the independence of the latter as relates to the allocation of domain names is guaranteed."

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