Upcoming Grace Deletion Policy Change & Deletion fee increase !

[anatoly]

this just came in the mail:

Starting on April 1, 2009, our Grace Deletion Policy will change due to ICANN's Add Grace Period Limits Policy announcement back in December 17, 2008. You can read ICANN's announcement here:

Advisory: Add Grace Period Limits Policy http://www.icann.org/en/announcement...17dec08-en.htm

Only generic TLDs are affected by this policy:

- COM, NET, ORG, INFO, and NAME will start enforcing ICANN's AGP Limits Policy on April 1.
- ASIA and MOBI have delayed their adoption of ICANN's AGP Limits Policy until May 1, 2009.
- BIZ will not be changing their current grace deletion policy since they have already implemented ICANN's AGP Limits Policy last year.
- TEL will be enforcing ICANN's AGP Limits Policy on March 24, 2009 (General Availability).

Each TLD affected by this policy will be restricted to the following:

- The deletion rate will be limited to 10% of all new domain registrations for that TLD. (The 10% limit applies to our whole system.) Therefore, we cannot always guarantee a grace deletion.

- The deletion fee will be increased from $0.20 to $1.00.

[Carter]

Welcome to the new dn-world order

[Acro]

Took them "only" 9 months to implement the decision?
About time to raise the restocking fee for domain tasting.
I'd rather they increased that than the registration fees.