With the opening of the .fr TLD to Europe scheduled for late 2011 as its background, the purpose of the consultation was to allow the public to comment on the changes to be made to the process of registering .fr domain names.
Eleven contributions were received. In terms of profiles, the respondents were holders of domain names (.fr and other TLDs), registrars, patent attorneys, and Internet users.
The answers allows Afnic to draw three main lessons:
Among the nine topics covered in the consultation, no fundamental point blocking the opening of .fr to Europe was raised by respondents.
The contributions of the participants enabled identification of the main discussion points, such as the information to be provided to the registrant, the residence of the administrative contact, and the status of the domain name during the verification.
Finally, the reachability of registrants was considered to be more important for legal representatives than the formers' eligibility. This was underlined by the fact that more than 2/3 of the participants in the consultation were in favour of updating administrative data (via an annual update of the contact details of the holders). In the same vein, the respondents believed that in the event of incorrect contact details, a domain name should be systematically blocked.
A preliminary draft of the changes to the rules for registration of the .fr TLD, based on recommendations by the AFNIC Legal working group, the Consultative Committees and the contributions received during the public consultation, will be submitted to the next Board of Directors, to be held on November 19th.
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