From 12 July to 12 September 2010, AFNIC is launching a major public consultation on the opening of the .fr top level domain to businesses and individuals residing within the European Union. To coincide with plans to open the .fr top level domain to Europe late 2011, the consultation will allow everyone to express their views on the changes to be made to the process for registering .fr top level domain.
How to check registrant identity, what checks need to be made, how long should registrants be given to respond… these are just three of the nine major themes that AFNIC is using to unveil its proposals concerning the opening of .fr top level domain in Europe. This questionnaire should allow internet users, registrars, registrants, intellectual property firms, and so on, to voice their opinions on the following :
information to be provided by domain name registrants ;
compliance criteria ;
initiating compliance checks ;
respective roles of AFNIC and registrars ;
response times granted to registrants ;
consequences of the compliance checks ;
information to the public on data acuracy ;
updating of administrative data ;
administrative contact ;
FNIC will publish a summary of the answers - all replies will obviously remain strictly anonymous.
The results of this request for comments will be used to structure the dialogue process that AFNIC will organise in the autumn as part of its consultative committees, with a view to possible ratification of the opening policy before the end of 2010. Registrations are expected to be opened to European businesses and residents before the end of 2011.
For more details check out www.afnic.fr
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