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Die ICANN hat soeben in New York bekannt gegeben, dass die Verwaltung der .net-TLD auch weiterhin durch das Unternehmen VeriSign erfolgen solle. Als Begruendung sagte man, dass VeriSign saemtliche Kriterien des Auswahlverfahrens am besten erfuellt habe und somit am besten fuer die verantwortungsvolle Aufgabe geeignet sei. Andere Mitbewerber, darunter auch die deutsche Organisation Denic, haetten entweder nicht alle Kriterien erfuellen koennen oder aber zumindest schlechter abgeschnitten als VeriSign.

Somit schnitt VeriSign am besten ab und landete unter den Bewerbern auf Platz 1, SentanRegistry belegte den zweiten Platz und Affilias den dritten. Erst dann folgt die Denic auf dem vierten Platz. Weltweit sind etwa 30 Millionen .net-Domains registriert. VeriSign generierte letztes Jahr durch die Verwaltung von .net einen Umsatz von ca. 30 Millionen US-Dollar.

Offizielle Pressemitteilung:

ICANN Publishes Telcordia Report on their Findings and Rankings for .NET

28 March 2005

The following is an update on the selection of a successor operator for the .NET registry.

Telcordia has completed a period of extensive evaluation, including site visits by the Telcordia team to each applicant’s facilities, the completion of preliminary written reports, and follow-up questions to each applicant. A team of technical experts from Asia, Europe and North America provided technical advice to Telcordia concerning operational aspects of the DNS during this process. ICANN has now received the evaluators’ final report and rankings.

Telcordia Report

The Telcordia report contains the results of the evaluation of the responses to the .NET reassignment RFP. The report consists of four sections: an executive summary of the findings, a description of the procedures that were used to evaluate the responses, the findings by RFP section, and the overall evaluation.

The Telcordia report noted the following: “The evaluators find that all the vendors have the capabilities to run the .NET registry”. Telcordia concluded that the “distinguishing characteristics are largely difference in experience, risk and price”. The final scoring result gave a slight advantage to VeriSign over Sentan, who were in order followed by Afilias, Denic and CORE++. Here are the rankings:

Rankings at a glance, taken from the Telcordia report:

Afilias Limited

CORE++

DENIC Domain

SentanRegistry

VeriSign, Inc.

 

¹ Throughout the process scores of Red, Yellow, Green or Blue were used. Although specific definitions of the scores were developed for each criteria in the RFP (process described below), the intuitive meaning of these scores is: Red = unacceptable, Yellow = has serious flaws or issues, Green = acceptable, Blue = exceeds requirements. ² ICANN .net Request for Proposals, http://www.icann.org/tlds/dotnet-reassignment/net-rfp-final-10dec04.pdf

 

The full Telcordia report is published here: http://www.icann.org/tlds/dotnet-reassignment/net-rfp-finalreport-28mar05.pdf

The Internet community is now invited to review the report. ICANN will promptly enter negotiations with the top-ranked applicant to reach a mutually acceptable registry agreement.

ICANN’s proposed form of the registry agreement has been posted on the ICANN website http://www.icann.org/tlds/dotnet-reassignment/draft-net-agreement-9mar05.pdf.

For additional information concerning the .NET selection process, please see http://www.icann.org/tlds/dotnet-reassignment/dotnet-general.htm.

Background

The Request for Proposals concerning the successor .NET registry operator was posted on 10 December 2004. An open question period for applicants was conducted through 7 January 2005. On 20 January 2005, ICANN announced the receipt of five applications. On 7 February 2005, ICANN announced that Telcordia Technologies, Inc. had been retained to conduct the independent evaluation of the applications.

About Telcordia

For more information about Telcordia please see the following link:

http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-07feb05.htm

About ICANN

ICANN is an internationally organised, non-profit corporation that has responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions. As a private-public partnership, ICANN is dedicated to preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to developing policy appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes.

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