ICANN Concludes Negotiations For Data Escrow

[Dave_Z]

Got this from ICANN's site:

http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-09nov07.htm

ICANN has concluded negotiations and entered into an agreement with Iron Mountain Intellectual Property Management, Inc. to provide escrow services under ICANN's Registrar Data Escrow (RDE) program. ICANN selected Iron Mountain through a competitive Request for Proposals process concluded earlier this year.

May mean something, may mean nothing, and lots of things to work out. But
there's a start.

 

[accent]

This is, as I understand it, a result of the RegisterFly fiasco, where ICANN, and hordes of customers, realized that the only place holding records of the domains registered at RF was RF itself.