- Category: gTLDs
- Topic: Amendment to .PRO Registry Agreement
- Board meeting date: 2 December 2002
- Resolution number: 02.143
- URL for Board minutes/resolution: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/prelim-report-02dec02.htm
- Status: Completed
Summary
Board authorizes amendment to the .PRO registry agreement to implement defensive registration product offerings.
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Whereas, on 15 November 2002 RegistryPro, Inc., which plans in the first quarter of 2003 to launch the registry for the .pro top-level domain under the registry agreement it entered with ICANN on 3 May 2002, requested that its registry agreement be amended to provide for it to offer three types of defensive registrations (Premium Intellectual Property Defensive Registrations, Basic Intellectual Property Defensive Registrations, and Standard Defensive Registrations) within the .pro top-level domain;
Whereas, in his 15 November 2002 letter, RegistryPro CEO Timothy Gelman explained that by offering defensive registrations, Registry Pro seeks to provide professionals located outside of the initial launch jurisdictions with an opportunity to protect their professional name and to decrease the number of potential claims filed by trademark registration owners;
Whereas, the .pro Advisory Board, which as contemplated by the .pro Registry Agreement is composed of representatives of professional associations and is intended to provide advice concerning the operation of the .pro registry from the perspective of professionals, its intended registrants, submitted a statement of support for the RegistryPro request for amendment;
Whereas, the intellectual property parts RegistryPro's proposed defensive registration offering are similar to that previously provided, with few controversies, in the .name and .coop top-level domains;
Whereas, the ICANN General Counsel has presented the Board with an analysis concluding that because the proposed offering is unlikely to harm legitimate interests of third parties, streamlined consideration of the amendment, without resort to the formal consensus-development process, is appropriate and recommending that the proposal for an amendment be approved;
Whereas, the General Counsel has presented the Board with proposed substitutes for Appendices G and L to the .pro registry agreement intended to implement RegistryPro's proposal, and has indicated that conforming and supporting revisions to several other appendices will be necessary; and
Whereas, the Board concludes that amendments to the .pro registry agreement to allow defensive registrations as proposed would promote fairness and stability in the introduction of the .pro top-level domain;
Resolved [02.143] that the President is authorized to enter an amendment to ICANN's .pro registry agreement with RegistryPro revising the appendices to that agreement to implement RegistryPro's proposal to offer defensive registrations.
(The Board approved the above resolution by a 10-0-4 vote, with Dr. Blokzijl, Mr. Chapin, Mr. Mueller-Maguhn, and Dr. Pisanty abstaining.)
Implementation Actions
- Amend .PRO registry agreement.
- Responsible entity: ICANN staff, Registry Operator
- Due date: None provided
- Completion date: 2 December 2002
Other Related Resolutions
- Resolution 02.40 and 02.41 - Authorizing President to enter .pro registry agreement and implement agreement once signed: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/prelim-report-14mar02.htm
- Resolution 03.161 - Authorizing amendments to .PRO registry agreement to implement second-level registration product offering: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/advisory-31oct03.htm
- Resolution 04.85 - Authorizing amendment of .PRO registry agreement to implement additional mechanisms for personal data verification: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-30sep04.htm
- Resolution 05.01 - Approving implementation of ENG as new profession-specific second-level domain in .PRO: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/minutes-24jan05.htm
- Resolution 05.06 - Approving introduction of ING as new profession-specific second-level domain in .PRO: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/minutes-18feb05.htm
- Resolution __.2008 - Approving proposed changes to .PRO Registry Agreement; authorizing President and General Counsel to take appropriate actions to implement amendments: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/minutes-30apr08.htm
- Other resolutions TBD
Additional Information
- .PRO registry agreement: http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agreements/pro/
- .PRO registry agreement was assigned from RegistryPro, Inc. to Registry Services Corporation on 18 February 2004: http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/prelim-report-18feb04.htm
- ICANN Publishes Comprehensive Evaluation of the Introduction of the .aero, .biz, .coop, .info, .museum, .name and .pro gTLDs
- The resolution does not address funding for the items identified therein.
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