Translations:ICANN/126/en
Registrar Accreditation
A month before the MoU officially recognized ICANN, the Department of Commerce and NSI amended their cooperative agreement. The agreement had previously maintained the NSI as the only registrar for the .com, .org, and .net domains.[1] The three amendments to the agreement removed the exclusive rights of NSI; amendment 11 called for the creation of a Shared Registry System, whereby an unlimited number of competitive registrars would have access to one system managed by NSI.[2] Amendment 12 gave more time to NSI to complete important milestones in the liberalization of registry services; the final phase, which called for equal access to the SRS by all accredited registrars, was now given a deadline of about one year, October 25th, 1999.[3] Amendment 13 attached a $9 fee for each second level domain name registered, payable as $18 for new registrations and $9 per year on the anniversary of the original registration.[4]
- ↑ Registrar Accreditation: History of the Shared Registry System. ICANN.
- ↑ Amendment 11. National Telecommunications & Information Administration. Published 1998 October 7.
- ↑ Amendment 12. National Telecommunications & Information Administration.
- ↑ Amendment 13. National Telecommunications & Information Administration.