President of ICANN’s Generic Domains Division, Akram Atallah has
said that granting approval to the latest Registrar Accreditation Agreement
(RAA) by the board of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) would transform the domain name industry.
Atallah who was reacting to the approval by ICANN board, said that
based on the intervention of multiple stakeholders which weighed in; from law
enforcement, to business, to consumers have ended up with this agreement, which
affords better protections and positively redefines the domain name industry.
DigitalSENSE Business News recalls that ICANN’s Board of Directors Friday,
June 28, 2013 approved a new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) that is
expected to bring continued improvements to the domain name ecosystem.
It was also gathered that the agreement follows over a year of
negotiations between ICANN and its Registrar Stakeholders Group and represents
marked improvements over the last RAA approved in 2009.
The vice president, Domain Management, MarkMonitor Incorporated Mr. Matt
Serlin, commended the approval, saying that he was pleased.
“We will now work on implementation
of the numerous new requirements in the 2013 RAA and we hope to continue the
interaction with ICANN staff and the broader community in the future, as registrars
roll out these changes," he said.
Further acclaimed achievements in the RAA, as highlighted by the ICANN
Director of Global Media Affairs, Mr. Brad White to correspondent, include the
establishment of a registrar point-of-contact for reporting abuse; verification
and validation of WHOIS - domain registrant’s data and clear establishment of
registrar responsibility for reseller compliance.
Additionally, Mr. White noted that the new RAA include enhanced
compliance tools that broaden suspension and termination tools, clarification
of audit rights, access to information to facilitate ongoing investigations and
annual certification requirements.
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