[UA-discuss] GNSO requested deferral of IDN Guidelines 4.0 Vote - CPH / Registrants impact

John Levine john.levine at standcore.com
Sun May 12 02:32:41 UTC 2019


In article <54666ffb-2773-97e9-10d0-f6c0d4afa8aa at ix.netcom.com> you write:
>Anytime you change the registration policies for an existing registry, 
>you will have to figure out how to grandfather existing, delegated 
>labels (if any).

The LGRs for several existing TLDS have changed, and .com and .net
have some IDNs that predate any LGRs.  The rule seems to be that you
can renew whatever you have forever, but if it expires and it's not
valid under the new rule, nobody can reregister it.

I'm not sure how much of a problem this is in practice.  When I went
through and looked at all of the IDNs in gTLDs including all the old
ones, the number that were grandfathered was quite small, well under
1% of the total.  By percentages it seemed to be more of a problem
that some new TLDs aren't following their own existing rules.

R's,
John


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