Patrick Jones, Registry Liaison Manager at ICANN, consolidated and summarized comments on the BTAPPA amendment:
Summary & Analysis of BTAPPA Comments
It is unanimous that a 15-day notice of pending transfer is too short:
The timeline for registrants [us] to respond was too short . . . the timeline should at a minimum match with the grace period for a domain name renewal.
- George Smith
Patrick Jones equates dot com & dot net – COMBINED! – with dot biz!
The BTAPPA service was first proposed by Neustar in 2006 was designed to accommodate registrars while at the same time protecting registrants. Neustar included a 15 day advance notice to registrants of a pending partial bulk transfer.
Who does ICANN think it’s fooling? There’s 2 million DOT BIZ, and 77 million DOT COM. DOT COM is #1; DOT NET is #4. DOT BIZ is only #8. They’re not even apples to oranges. DOT COM and DOT BIZ are - maybe – caviar to hot dogs. It’s a stretch to assume a process that worked for the #8 extension will work for the #1 and #4 extensions combined!
Security issues which plague the Resistrars of dot com and dot net are not worked out – should ICANN give more power to Registrars under the present circumstances? ICANN has some explaining to do!