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29px; " lang="X-NONE">Call for Volunteers: Fake Renewal Notices
Drafting Team</span></h1>
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42, 42); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
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normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 20px; " lang="EN-US">The
Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council seeks
volunteers to serve on a drafting team that will prepare a
request for information on Fake Renewal Notices, work with the
Registrar Stakeholder Group to obtain the information requested
and report back to the GNSO Council.</span></p>
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normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 20px; " lang="EN-US">The
GNSO Council resolved at its meeting on 6 October in response to
one of the recommendations of the Registration Abuse Policies
Working Group that ‘additional information is needed from the
Registrar Stakeholder Group with regard to the conditional [RAP
WG] Fake Renewal Notices recommendation #2 before an Issue
Report should be requested of Staff. The GNSO Council hereby
requests that the Registrar Stakeholder Group provide further
information and data on the nature and scope of the issue of
Fake Renewal Notices to help inform the GNSO Council's and its
RAP WG deliberations on whether an Issue Report should be
requested. A small group of volunteers consisting of registrar
representatives and others interested (including former RAP WG
members) should be formed to prepare such a request, work with
the Registrar Stakeholder Group to obtain the information
requested and report back to the GNSO Council accordingly’.</span><span
style="line-height: 20px; font-size: 12pt; " lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(42,
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normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 20px; " lang="EN-US">ICANN
Working Groups use transparent, open processes. The meetings of
this Drafting Team (DT) will be recorded, and the recordings
will be available to the public. The mailing list for the DT
will be archived publicly. DT members are expected to submit
Statements of Interest (SOI). The group will collaborate using a
public workspace. The DT is expected to follow the</span><a
href="http://gnso.icann.org/council/annex-1-gnso-wg-guidelines-07apr11-en.pdf"
target="_blank" saprocessedanchor="true" style="line-height:
20px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline; color:
blue; cursor: pointer; "><span style="line-height: 20px; "
lang="EN-US">GNSO Working Group Guidelines</span></a><span
style="line-height: 20px; " lang="EN-US">.</span></p>
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20px; font-size: 11pt; " lang="X-NONE">How to Join</span></h2>
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normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 20px; " lang="EN-US">The
Council invites interested parties to provide names of expected
participants who can then be added to the DT mailing list. The
GNSO Council may also invite stakeholders and experts to join.
Community members who wish to be invited to join the group
should contact the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a
href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@icann.org?subject=Application%20to%20Join%20IRTP%20Part%20C%20Working%20Group"
saprocessedanchor="true" style="line-height: 20px; font-weight:
inherit; text-decoration: underline; color: blue; cursor:
pointer; "><span style="line-height: 20px; " lang="EN-US">GNSO
secretariat</span></a><span style="line-height: 20px; "
lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@icann.org">gnso.secretariat@icann.org</a>).</span></p>
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255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 20px; " lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
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20px; font-size: 11pt; " lang="X-NONE">Background</span></h2>
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42, 42); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
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normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 20px; " lang="EN-US">From
the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a
href="http://gnso.icann.org/issues/rap/rap-wg-final-report-29may10-en.pdf"
target="_blank" saprocessedanchor="true" style="line-height:
20px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline; color:
blue; cursor: pointer; "><span style="line-height: 20px; "
lang="EN-US">Registration Abuse Policies Final Report</span></a><span
style="line-height: 20px; " lang="EN-US">: ‘Fake renewal notices
are misleading correspondence sent to registrants from an
individual or organization claiming to be or to represent the
current registrar. These are sent for a variety of deceptive
purposes. The desired action as a result of the deceptive
notification is:</span></p>
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letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); " type="disc">
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0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left:
0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span
style="line-height: 20px; " lang="EN-US">Pay an unnecessary
fee (fraud)</span></li>
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0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left:
0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span
style="line-height: 20px; " lang="EN-US">Get a registrant to
switch registrars unnecessarily (“slamming”, or illegitimate
market-based switching)</span></li>
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0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left:
0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span
style="line-height: 20px; " lang="EN-US">Reveal credentials or
provide authorization codes to facilitate theft of the domain’</span></li>
</ul>
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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px;
font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(42,
42, 42); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
-webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 20px; " lang="EN-US">As a
result, the RAP Working Group recommended, following obtaining
further information from ICANN’s Compliance Department, that the
GNSO Council consider requesting an Issue Report on this issue.
However, after review of the information received from the ICANN
Compliance Department (see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a
href="http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg10766.html"
target="_blank" saprocessedanchor="true" style="line-height:
20px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline; color:
blue; cursor: pointer; "><span style="line-height: 20px; "
lang="EN-US">http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg10766.html</span></a><span
style="line-height: 20px; " lang="EN-US">) and further
discussions on this issue (see for example</span><a
href="http://singapore41.icann.org/meetings/singapore2011/transcript-rap-18jun11-en.pdf"
target="_blank" saprocessedanchor="true" style="line-height:
20px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline; color:
blue; cursor: pointer; "><span style="line-height: 20px; "
lang="EN-US">http://singapore41.icann.org/meetings/singapore2011/transcript-rap-18jun11-en.pdf</span></a><span
style="line-height: 20px; " lang="EN-US">), the GNSO Council
determined that further information would be desirable before
deciding whether or not to request an Issue Report.</span></p>
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normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 20px; " lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
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font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(42,
42, 42); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
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normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 20px; font-size: 12pt;
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