.com Registry Agreement
On 01 December 2012, ICANN and VeriSign, Inc., entered into an Unsponsored Registry Agreement under which VeriSign operates the .com top-level domain. The agreement and its appendices may be viewed by following the links below.
Previous agreement(s) may be viewed on the Registry Agreement Archive page.
Registry Agreement
- HTML (01 December 2012)
Amendments
- Amendment No.3 (27 March 2020)*
- Amendment No.2 (27 March 2019, updated on 23 May 2019 to reflect redaction of confidential text in Exhibit A)
- Amendment No.1 (20 October 2016)
Appendices
- Appendix 1A: Data Escrow Specification (27 March 2020)
- Appendix 2A: Escrow Agreement (27 March 2020)
- Appendix 3A: Zone File Access Agreement (27 March 2020)
- Appendix 4A: Format and Content for Registry Operator Monthly Reporting (27 March 2020)
- Appendix 5A: Registration Data Publication Services Specification (27 March 2020)
- Appendix 5B: Registration Data Access Protocol Service Specification (27 March 2020)
- Appendix 6: Schedule of Reserved Names (01 December 2012)
- Appendix 7: Functional and Performance Specifications (01 December 2012)
- Appendix 8A: Registry-Registrar Agreement (27 March 2020)
- Appendix 9: Approved Services (01 December 2012)
- Appendix 10: Service Level Agreement (SLA) (01 December 2012)
- Appendix 11: Public Interest Commitments (27 March 2020)
*Additional Information Related to Amendment No.3
- Informational blog related to Amendment No.3 (27 March 2020)
- Decision Paper for .COM Amendment No.3 and Letter of Intent (27 March 2020)
- Binding Letter of Intent between ICANN and Verisign, Inc. (27 March 2020)