ICANN Proposes Extending Verisign .com Registry Agreement to 2024, Signs Regional Registries Pact
ICANN sought comment Thursday on the proposed extension of its .com registry agreement with Verisign through 2024. ICANN separately signed its service level agreement Wednesday with the Regional Internet Registries for the IANA numbering services, which will take effect when…
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the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) transition takes effect. ICANN also finalized its memorandum of understanding supplemental agreement Wednesday with the Internet Engineering Task Force for performing protocol parameters functions. Enactment of the IETF supplemental agreement was a Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability recommendation on ICANN accountability mechanisms. The existing Verisign registry agreement won't expire until 2018 but ICANN’s Global Domains Division is proposing an extension of the agreement to align it with the term of its new root zone maintainer services agreement (RZMA) with Verisign. ICANN announced the new RZMA deal last week as part of the work to transition NTIA’s oversight of the root zone management system to ICANN in parallel with the IANA transition (see 1606280062). The .com registry agreement extension doesn’t affect Verisign’s presumptive right of renewal of the contract, ICANN said. Comments on the proposed extension are due Aug. 12.