Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Registry Agreements

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TLD Sponsorship Agreement: Attachment 20

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TLD Sponsorship Agreement: Attachment 20

Posted: 15 October 2001


Sponsor's Monthly Reports

Subject to Subsection 3.17.1 of the Agreement, Sponsor shall provide the following information in monthly reports to ICANN. ICANN shall use reasonable commercial efforts to preserve the confidentiality of information reported in response to items 5 - 13 for a period of three months after the end of the month to which the report relates.

1. Accredited Registrar Status. State the number of registrars for whom Sponsor has received accreditation notification from ICANN at the end of the reporting month. They should be grouped into the following three status categories:

1.1. Operational registrars are those who have authorized access into the System for processing domain name registrations. It should be noted that operational registrars are not listed on the InterNIC.net web site until they specifically request to be listed. This means that a registrar may be operational from the point of view of the Sponsor but not listed on the InterNIC site.

1.2. Registrars in the ramp-up period represent those who have received a password to access the Sponsored TLD's operational test and evaluation (OT&E) environment. The OT&E environment is provided to allow registrars to develop and test their systems with the System.

1.3. Registrars in the pre-ramp-up period are those who have been sent information regarding the Sponsored TLD, but have not yet entered the Ramp-up Period. For these registrars, state separately (a) the total number of registrars as to which an accreditation notification has been received, (b) the number having an agreement with the Registry Operator, and (c) the number having an Authorizing Agreement with the Sponsor.

2. Service Level Agreement Performance. Compare Service Level Agreement ("SLA") requirements with actual performance measures for the reporting month. (Only applies where Sponsor has created a service level agreement requirement for Registry Operator).

3. TLD Zone File Access Activity. State the zone file access activity for the current reporting month including:

3.1. Total number of zone file access passwords at end of previous month

3.2. Number of new zone file access passwords issued during the reporting month

3.3. Total number of zone file access approvals at end of reporting month

4. Completed SRS/System Software Releases. State significant releases that have occurred since the Effective Date, including:

4.1. Release Name

4.2. Features

4.3. Target Date

4.4. Complete Date

5. Domain Names Under Sponsorship - Per Registrar. State the number of domain names sponsored by each live ICANN-Accredited Registrar in the Sponsored TLD for the current reporting month.

6. Nameservers Under Management - Per Registrar. State the number of nameservers registered by each ICANN-Accredited Registrar in the Sponsored TLD for the current reporting month.

7. Domain Names Registered by Registry Operator. Provide a list of all domain names registered by Registry Operator, other than a request submitted by a registrar pursuant to that registrar's Registry-Registrar Agreement, in the Sponsored TLD.

8. Whois Service Activity. State the number of Whois queries during the current reporting month. For registries with fee-based enhanced Whois Service, state the number of queries for each service (i.e. basic, xWhois, etc.).

9. Monthly Growth Trends. Tabulate the monthly growth trend in total Registry transactions. Transactions should be divided into three categories:

9.1. Write Domain - This category includes the following transactions: add domain, modify domain, delete domain, renew domain, auto-renew domain (if any) and transfer domain.

9.2. Query Domain - This category includes the following transactions: query domain and query domain transfer status.

9.3. Check Domain - This category includes the following transaction: check domain.

9.4. Write Server - This category includes the following transactions: add name server, modify name server, and delete name server.

9.5. Query Server - This category includes the following transaction: query name server.

9.6. Check Server - This category includes the following transaction: check name server.

9.7. Write Contact - (where contact information is maintained under the registry model) - This category includes the following transactions: add contact, modify contact, delete contact, transfer contact.

9.8. Query Contact - (where contact information is maintained under the registry model) - This category includes the following transactions: query contact and query contact transfer status.

9.9. Check Contact - (where contact information is maintained under the registry model) - This category includes the following transaction: check contact.

10. Total Number of Transactions by Subcategory by Month. Tabulate the monthly growth trend for each transaction in subcategories of the Write Domain, Write Server, and Write Contact categories described in Subsection 9.1 as follows:

10.1. Add Domain

10.2. Delete Domain

10.3. Modify Domain

10.4. Check Domain

10.5. Renew Domain

10.6. Transfer Domain

11. Total Number of Failed Transactions by Subcategory by Month. Starting 1 April 2002, tabulate the monthly growth trend for each failed transaction in subcategories of the Write Domain, Write Server, and Write Contact categories described in Subsection 9.1 as follows:

11.1. Add Domain

11.2. Delete Domain

11.3. Modify Domain

11.4. Check Domain

11.5. Renew Domain

11.6. Transfer Domain

12. Daily Transaction Range. Tabulate the number of total daily transactions. The range of transaction volume should be shown for each month along with the average daily transaction volume.

13. TLD Geographical Registrations Distribution. Tabulate the number and percent of total and new domain name registrations in the Sponsored TLD broken down by geographical location (country code) as of the end of the current reporting month. (Only applies where contact information is maintained under registry model).

Prior drafts:

20 August 2001


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