Verisign move to cancel 22,000 .name registrations draws SSAC criticism
Verisign The company that operates the .com and .net registries. Full definition of Verisign has told holders of roughly 22,000 existing .name domain registration Obtaining the right to use a domain name for a set period. Full definition of registration that their registrations will be terminated, according to a report by domainbrief.de. The report says ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers The nonprofit that coordinates the global DNS and gTLD policy. Full definition of ICANN's review of the plan was limited to checking whether it matched terms already set out in Verisign's registry The central database and system of a top-level domain, or loosely the organization that runs it. Full definition of registry agreement, rather than assessing the impact on registrant The person or organization that holds a domain name registration. Full definition of registrant. A former chair of ICANN's SSAC Security and Stability Advisory Committee ICANN's expert committee on security and stability of naming and addressing. Full definition of SSAC has publicly objected to the decision, arguing that affected registrants deserve stronger protection. The case raises questions about what guarantees domain owners actually have when a registry operator The organization that holds the contract or mandate for a TLD and sets its rules. Full definition of registry operator decides to discontinue a service.
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Verisign, the company that runs the .name domain extension, is cancelling about 22,000 existing website addresses. A report says ICANN only checked if this followed the rules in Verisign's contract, not whether it was fair to users. A former top ICANN security advisor is speaking out against the plan.