Stephane Van Gelder

ICANN recently announced a huge drop in AGP deletes following the introduction of anti-domain tasting measures, namely a transaction fee of 20 US cents on all domain name registrations that exceed a certain set of limits.

There's more to come, as full "AGP limits" are enforced as a policy next year.

The problem is that this basically does away with the AGP. So how are registrars going to protect themselves against credit card fraud, which was the reason for having the AGP in the first place?

ICANN has opened a comment period on the AGP limits policy and the Registrar Constituency has published a position paper on the subject. We're asking for more time to gauge the impact of the current measures before the full AGP limits are enforced.