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gTLD Registry Continuity Project
Welcome to the information area on ICANN's gTLD Registry Continuity Project.
The overall goals of ICANN's gTLD Registry Continuity Plan are 1) the protection of existing registrants and 2) to ensure confidence in the DNS.
The gTLD Registry Continuity Project is one of ICANN's key projects as defined in its Operating Plan. Section 1.10.1 of the 2007-2008 ICANN Operating Plan states that ICANN will "Establish a comprehensive plan to be followed in the event of financial, technical, or business failure of a registry operator, including full compliance with data escrow requirements and recovery testing."
The 2006-2007 ICANN Operating Plan included the above language and stated that ICANN will "publish a plan supported by the infrastructure and data escrow procedures necessary to maintain registry operation." Based on community input received on the 1 June 2007 Registry Failure Report and Protections for Registrants Workshop in San Juan, Puerto Rico, ICANN developed a draft gTLD Registry Failover Plan. The Plan was updated following the ICANN meeting in Paris.
ICANN is coordinating the gTLD Registry Continuity Plan with the development of the new gTLD process and other contingency efforts such as the De-Accredited Registrar Procedure and Registrar Data Escrow program.
News and Project Updates
On 29 September, ICANN staff held an exercise planning session with gTLD registries and consultants in Washington DC. During the meeting it was recommended that as part of the implementation notes in development, staff retitle the plan to be the ICANN gTLD Registry Continuity Plan. ICANN has initiated a core exercise team to develop a test exercise with experienced registries and others for January 2009.
Latest Draft gTLD Registry Continuity [formerly Failover] Plan
During the ICANN meeting in Paris, the gTLD Registry Failover Plan [PDF, 85K] was finalized. The latest version of the plan is dated 15 July 2008. Staff is developing implementation notes, and upon the release of this update the plan will be re-titled the gTLD Registry Continuity Plan.
Document Archive
- 21 August 2008 Summary & Analysis of Comments on Registry Failover Plan (http://forum.icann.org/lists/registry-failover-plan/msg00007.html)
- 15 July 2008 ICANN gTLD Registry Failover Plan (http://www.icann.org/registries/failover/icann-registry-failover-plan-15jul08.pdf)
- 15 July 2008 ICANN's gTLD Registry Failover Plan Announcement (http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-3-15jul08-en.htm)
- Protection for Registrants in an Evolving Market, 23 June 2008 at ICANN meeting in Paris (http://par.icann.org/files/paris/protection_of_registrants_23Jun08.pdf) [PDF,956 K]
- SSAC 31 (http://www.icann.org/committees/security/sac031.pdf) [PDF, 84K]
- Minutes from Meeting of the ICANN Board, 15 Feb 2008 in Delhi, India (http://www.icann.org/minutes/minutes-15feb08.htm#_Toc68181219)
- Protection of Registrants presentation from the ICANN Public Forum in Delhi (http://delhi.icann.org/files/ProtectionofRegstrants_14Feb08.pdf) [PDF, 112K]
- Presentation to gTLD Registries 30 April 2008, North American Regional Gathering, New Orleans, Louisiana (http://icann.org/registries/failover/registry-failover-30apr08.pdf) [PDF, 121K]
- After Action Report on ICANN's gTLD Registry Failover Exercise (6 April 2008) (http://icann.org/registries/failover/icann-aar-06apr08.pdf) [PDF, 165K]
- Presentation to SSAC during ICANN meeting in Delhi, India 13 February 2008 (http://delhi.icann.org/files/presentation-jones-reg-fail-13feb08.pdf) [PDF, 397K]
- Comment Period on Draft gTLD Registry Failover Plan (http://www.icann.org/public_comment/public-comment-200712.html#registry-failover-plan)
- 27 November 2007 Revised Draft gTLD Registry Failover Plan (http://www.icann.org/registries/failover/draft-plan-27nov07.htm.pdf) [PDF, 41K]
- 1 November 2007 ICANN Public Forum, Los Angeles Meeting, Presentation on Protections for Registrants (http://losangeles2007.icann.org/files/losangeles/Registrantprotections_LA07.pdf) [PDF, 1,000K]
- 20 October 2007 Draft gTLD Registry Failover Plan (Version obsolete by subsequent drafts) (http://www.icann.org/registries/failover/draft-plan-20oct07.htm)
- 20 October 2007 Draft Flowchart (http://www.icann.org/registries/failover/draft-plan-flow-chart-20oct07.pdf) [PDF, 85K]
- Protection of Registrants Workshop in ICANN meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico 25 June 2007 (http://sanjuan2007.icann.org/node/24)
- Comment Forum on 1 June Failover Report (http://forum.icann.org/lists/registry-failure-report/)
- 1 June 2007 gTLD Registry Failover Project Report (http://www.icann.org/registries/reports/registry-failover-01jun07.htm)
- 1 June 2007 Announcement (http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-4-01jun07.htm)
- ICANN Board Resolution from 30 March 2007 on Protections for gTLD Registrants (http://www.icann.org/minutes/resolutions-30mar07.htm#_Toc36876534)
- 13 March 2007 Minutes of the ICANN Board of Directors (http://www.icann.org/minutes/minutes-13mar07.htm)
- 5 March 2007 ICANN gTLD Registry Data Escrow Report (http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/data-escrow-report05mar07.htm)
- 5 March 2007 Announcement on ICANN gTLD Registry Data Escrow Report (http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-05mar07.htm)
- ICANN DNS Security Update #1 (4 January 2002) (http://www.icann.org/committees/security/sac002.htm)