news A tiny island nation has put the rights to .tv up for grabs - Problematic contract clauses?

[NickB]

A tiny island nation has put the rights to .tv up for grabs – but what’s this? Problematic contract clauses? Again?​

"One of the internet’s most lucrative and high-profile registry contracts is up for grabs – and once again the bidding process appears to be highly problematic.

The contract to run .tv has been held by dot-com operator Verisign for 20 years. This agreement expires this year, and Tuvalu, the small island state that owns the top-level domain, has decided to seek a rebid..............

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/18/tv_domain_contract

 

[HotKey]

Requirement 2.15 of the .TV registry request for proposal (RFP) reads:

Transition. Describe your plan for the transition-in of services, including processes, resources, approach and timeline. Include experience transitioning at least 5 TLDs, and at least 5 ccTLDs, with at least 3 transitions of TLDs over 1 million domain names. (Upgrading or migrating from one platform to another inside a company does not count as a transition).

Someone's looking for a new _Daddy

 

[NickB]

Someone's looking for a new _Daddy

Very funny

Something smells fishy with this process......

You have Godaddy, Centralnic, Verisign and Donuts - how many of these have "experience transitioning at least 5 TLDs, and at least 5 ccTLDs, with at least 3 transitions of TLDs over 1 million domain names."?

Seems Ethos Capital who have a major stake in Donuts and got caught with their pants down with the .org fiasco are trying some other shenanigans?

 

[HotKey]

As predicted, they came home to _Daddy.

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