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What is it about: Status update on the activities of the Locking of a Domain Name Subject to UDRP Proceedings PDP Working Group

Background information: This PDP WG is tasked to address the locking of a domain name subject to Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) proceedings. For further information, please see https://community.icann.org/display/udrpproceedings/Home.

Marika Konings

Michele Neylon, Chair
Alan Greenberg, Vice-Chair of the WG

What is it about: ICANN Staff will brief the GNSO Council about the Initial Report on Uniformity of Contracts commissioned by the Council. It is expected that the GNSO Council will discuss the report in Toronto and subsequently determine whether to initiate a PDP on the matter.

Background information: The request for an Issue Report on this topic follows the work of the Registration Abuse Policies Working Group (RAPWG). The RAPWG was tasked by the GNSO Council with defining abuse, making a determination between registration abuse versus use abuse, defining the most common forms of abuse, and understanding the effectiveness of abuse provisions within agreements in order to identify and recommend specific policy issues and processes for further consideration by the GNSO Council.

The RAPWG recommended in its Final Report “the creation of an Issues Report to evaluate whether a minimum baseline of registration abuse provisions should be created for all in-scope ICANN agreements, and if created, how such language would be structured to address the most common forms of registration abuse.”

The GNSO Council subsequently asked Staff to prepare an Issue Report to evaluate this recommendation last year. Staff posted a Preliminary Issue Report on Uniformity of Contracts on 25 July 2012 for public comment and produced a summary of the community comments on the topic.