icann, domains, registrars & trademarks
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ICANN, Domains, Registrars & Trademarks
A (Dirty Filthy) Registrar Perspective
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What is a Registrar?
• Company offering domain name registration services. Within ICANN context, “ICANN accredited” OR a reseller of an ICANN accredited registrar
• Most sell other services such as hosting, email services, SSL etc.,
• Margin on a domain registration is tiny
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Why do they care about ICANN?
ICANN’s contract governs how we operate• The Registrar Stakeholder Group is part of ICANN
GNSO (Generic Naming Support Organisation)
• Registrars actively involved in policy development
• Different business models => different views on issues
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How do we make Money?
• Hosting and other services have better margin than domains
• Why do you care? Better understanding of business model etc.,
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Piggy In The Middle
Dealing with trademark issues is NOT our job
• There are dispute mechanisms (UDRP, URS etc)• Registrars & hosts are intermediaries – not our role
to act as arbiters of IP disputes. • 99% of the time we don’t know about the alleged
infringement until we are notified• DMCA is US only. Seriously.
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What Can A Registrar Do?
It’ll depend on the situation• Are we the registrar for the domain? • Do we host the domain? • If we are ONLY the registrar we can only pull the plug
entire (nuclear option)• DMCA is US only. Seriously. (I know I’ve already said
that!)
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Cutting Off The Domain Kills It
If the registrar pulls the domain EVERYTHING associated with it is taken offline. EVERYTHING.
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